Sexual states : governance and the struggle over the antisodomy law in India

Sexual states : governance and the struggle over the antisodomy law in India / Jyoti Puri.

"In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which i...

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Main Author: Puri, Jyoti (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Next wave (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
Sodomy > Law and legislation > India.
Homosexuality > Law and legislation > India.
Criminal justice, Administration of > India.
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.

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