Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West

By Ruth Vanita

Book Overview

This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades. Ruth Vanita examines these cases in the context of a wide variety of same-sex unions, from Fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together, to Nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women, to marriages between gay men and lesbians arranged over the internet. Examining the changing legal, literary, religious and social Indian and Euro-American traditions within which same-sex unions are embedded, she brings a fresh perspective to the gay marriage debate, suggesting that same-sex marriage dwells not at the margins but at the heart of culture. Love's Rites by Ruth Vanita is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403970386
• ISBN13: 9781403970381
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.6"