Sexual States - Governance and the Struggle Over the Antisodomy Law in India

Informationen zum Autor Jyoti Puri Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  vii Part One. Introduction 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States  3 2. Engendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality's Effects on Biopolitical States  24 Part Two. Sexual Lives of Juridicial Governance 3. State Scripts: Antisodomy Law and the Annals of Law and Law Enforcement  49 4. "Half Truths": Racialization, Habitual Criminals, and the Police  74 Part Three. Opposing Law, Contesting Governance 5. Pivoting toward the State: Phase One of the Struggle against Section 377  101 6. States versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing and Recriminalizing Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context  126 Afterlives  150 Notes  165 Bibliography  193 Index  211

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jyoti Puri
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9780822360261
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-6026-1
• Pagine: 232
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in W; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva