UID:
edocfu_9958108965502883
Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:
0-8223-7474-9
Series Statement:
Next wave
Content:
In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section -- State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822360438
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822360268
Language:
English
