Sexual states : : governance and the decriminalization of sodomy in India's present / / Jyoti Puri.
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.
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| Superior document: | Next wave |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Next wave.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.