Love's rite same sex marriage in India and the West /

Main Author: Vanita, Ruth.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10135547
Table of Contents:
  • Who decides? Marriage law, the state, and mutual consent
  • Is the spirit gendered? Fluid gender, sex-change, and same-sex marriage
  • "Immortal longings": love-death, rebirth, and union through life after life
  • A second self: traditions of romantic friendship
  • Monstrous to miraculous: same-sex reproduction and parenting
  • All in the family: same-sex relationships in traditional families
  • "Married among their companions": female-female relations in pre-modern erotica
  • Aspiring to union: twentieth-century cinema.