TY - BOOK AU - Vanita,Ruth ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Love's rite: same sex marriage in India and the West AV - HQ1033 .V36 2005eb PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Same-sex marriage KW - India KW - United States KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10135547 ER -