Love's Rite
This is the first book to examine same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides in India today, discussing these phenomena both in the context of the international debate on gay marriage, and in the context of past and present Indian and Euro-American cultural representations of same-sex union.
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An examination of same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides in India.
1Introduction12Who decides? : marriage law, the state, and mutual consent473Is the spirit gendered? : fluid gender, sex change, and same-sex marriage714"Immortal longings" : love-death, rebirth, and union through life after life915A second self : traditions of romantic friendship1136Monstrous to miraculous - same-sex reproduction and parenting1377All in the family : same-sex relationships in traditional families1618"Married among their companions" : female-female relations in premodern erotica1839Aspiring to union : twentieth-century cinema20910Conclusion225
