Jyoti Puri: 2 books
Sexual States
Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
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...
Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India
Narratives of Gender and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.