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Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
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Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society Paperback - 2001

by Ruth Vanita (Editor)


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Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. Specifically, the essays cover such issues as Deepa Mehta's recent and controversial film, Fire, which focused on lesbian relationships in India; the Indian penal code which outlaws homosexual acts; a case of same-sex love and murder in colonial India; homophobic fiction and homoerotic advertising in current day India; and lesbian subtext in Hindu scripture. All of the essays are original to the collection. Queering India promises to change the way we understand India as well as gay and lesbian life and sexuality around the world.

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The Indian Law Commission, presided over by Lord Macaulay, introduced the colonial antisodomy statute, Section 377, into the Indian Penal Code on October 6, 1860, in British India.

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  • Title Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
  • Author Ruth Vanita (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Paperback Ed
  • Pages 264
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, U.S.A.
  • Date 2001-11-16
  • ISBN 9780415929509 / 0415929504
  • Weight 0.78 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.02 x 0.57 in (22.71 x 15.29 x 1.45 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Indian
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Homosexuality - India
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001019111
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.766

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Citations

  • Lambda Book Report, 06/01/2002, Page 30

About the author

Ruth Vanita is Associate Professor of Liberal Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Montana. She is the co-editor of Same-Sex Love in India: Readings fromLiterature (2000).

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