Sexual states

Titel:	Sexual states : governance and the struggle over the antisodomy law in India / Jyoti Puri
Verfasser:	Puri, Jyoti
Veröffentlicht:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2016
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (x, 222 Seiten)
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk:	Next wave: new directions in women's studies
RVK-Notation:	MS 2870 · PU 9100 · MH 14086
Schlagworte:	Homosexualität Recht Entkriminalisierung Strafrecht Straftat Indien
Andere Ausgaben:	Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe: Puri, Jyoti. Sexual states. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2016
ISBN:	9780822374749 ; 9780822360261 ; 9780822360438

Bemerkung:	Der Titel ist Teil des Projekts Knowledge Unlatched, Round2 Pre-Unlatch Literaturangaben
Zusammenfassung:	In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of 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. Between 2001 and 2013 activists attempted to rewrite section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which outlaws homosexual behavior. Having interviewed activists and NGO workers throughout five metropolitan centers, investigated crime statistics at the National Crime Records Bureau, visited various state institutions, and met with the police, Puri found that section 377 is but one element of the large and complex systems of laws, practices, policies, and discourses that regulate Indian sexuality. Intended to mitigate sexuality's threat to the social order, this regulation works to preserve the views of 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.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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Der Titel ist Teil des Projekts Knowledge Unlatched, Round2 Pre-Unlatch
Literaturangaben

Zusammenfassung:

In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of 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. Between 2001 and 2013 activists attempted to rewrite section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which outlaws homosexual behavior. Having interviewed activists and NGO workers throughout five metropolitan centers, investigated crime statistics at the National Crime Records Bureau, visited various state institutions, and met with the police, Puri found that section 377 is but one element of the large and complex systems of laws, practices, policies, and discourses that regulate Indian sexuality. Intended to mitigate sexuality's threat to the social order, this regulation works to preserve the views of 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.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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