Love's rite : same sex marriage in India and the West / / Ruth Vanita.
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| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 274 p. :; ill. |
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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.