Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle Over the Antisodomy Law in India - Couverture souple

Puri, Jyoti

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822360438 ISBN 13 : 9780822360438

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 in addition to outlawing homosexual behavior is often used to prosecute a range of activities and groups that are considered perverse. Having interviewed activists and NGO workers throughout five metropolitan centers, investigated crime statistics and case law, visited various state institutions, and met with the police, Puri found that Section 377 is but one element of how homosexuality is regulated in India. This statute works alongside the large and complex system of laws, practices, policies, and discourses intended to mitigate sexuality's threat to the social order while upholding the state as inevitable, legitimate, and indispensable. By highlighting the various means through which the regulation of sexuality constitutes India's heterogeneous and fragmented "sexual state," Puri provides a conceptual framework to understand the links between sexuality and the state more broadly.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822360438
• ISBN 13: 9780822360438
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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