Overview
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.
- | Author: R. Vanita
- | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- | Publication Date: Oct 12, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 274 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 1403970386
- | ISBN-13: 9781403970381
