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Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West

Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West

Vanita, R.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 1403970386
ISBN13: 9781403970381
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 12 2005
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.77 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards
This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades. Ruth Vanita examines these cases in the context of a wide variety of same-sex unions, from Fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together, to Nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women, to marriages between gay men and lesbians arranged over the internet. Examining the changing legal, literary, religious and social Indian and Euro-American traditions within which same-sex unions are embedded, she brings a fresh perspective to the gay marriage debate, suggesting that same-sex marriage dwells not at the margins but at the heart of culture. Love's Rites by Ruth Vanita is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

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