Format:
1 online resource (233 pages)
ISBN:
9780822374749
Series Statement:
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
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.
Content:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States -- Chapter 2. Engendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality's Effects on Biopolitical States -- Part Two. Sexual Lives of Juridical Governance -- Chapter 3. State Scripts: Antisodomy Law and the Annals of Law and Law Enforcement -- Chapter 4. "Half Truths": Racializations, Habitual Criminals, and the Police -- Part Three. Opposing Law, Contesting Governance -- Chapter 5. Pivoting toward the State: Phase One of the Struggle against Section 377 -- Chapter 6. State Versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing and Recriminalizing Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context -- Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822360261
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780822360261
Language:
English
