Love's rite

Vanita, Ruth.

Love's rite same sex marriage in India and the West / [electronic resource] : Ruth Vanita. - 1st ed. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. - xiii, 274 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index.

Who decides? Marriage law, the state, and mutual consent -- Is the spirit gendered? Fluid gender, sex-change, and same-sex marriage -- "Immortal longings": love-death, rebirth, and union through life after life -- A second self: traditions of romantic friendship -- Monstrous to miraculous: same-sex reproduction and parenting -- All in the family: same-sex relationships in traditional families -- "Married among their companions": female-female relations in pre-modern erotica -- Aspiring to union: twentieth-century cinema.


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Same-sex marriage.
Same-sex marriage--India.
Same-sex marriage--United States.


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