Sexual states governance and the decriminalization of sodomy in India's present

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Puri, Jyoti, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2016.
Series:Next wave.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009429942506719
Table of Contents:
  • Governing sexuality, constituting states
  • Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states
  • State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement
  • "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police
  • Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section
  • State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context.