Jyoti Puri

Sexual States

Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822360261
• ISBN-10: 0822360268
• Artikelnr.: 42573473

Autorenporträt

Jyoti Puri is Professor of Sociology at Simmons College and the author of Encountering Nationalism.  

Inhaltsangabe

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