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008			201128b2005 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng
020			_a9781349532087
082			_a306.848 VAN
100			_aVanita, Ruth
245			_aLove’s Rite, Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West / _cRuth Vanita
260			_aLondon : _bPalgrave Macmillan US (Springer), _c2005.
300			_axi, 274 p. : _c21 cm
505			_aContents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi 1. Introduction 1 : 2. Who Decides: Marriage Law, the State, and Mutual Consent 47 : 3. Is the Spirit Gendered?: Fluid Gender, Sex Change, and Same-Sex Marriage 71 : 4. “Immortal Longings”: Love-Death, Rebirth, and Union Through Life After Life 91 : 5. A Second Self: Traditions of Romantic Friendship 113 : 6. Monstrous to Miraculous—Same-Sex Reproduction and Parenting 137 : 7. All in the Family: Same-Sex Relationships in Traditional Families 161 : 8. “Married Among Their Companions”: Female-Female Relations in Premodern Erotica 183 : 9. Aspiring to Union: Twentieth-Century Cinema 209 : 10. Conclusion 225 : Appendix: Note on Theory and Methodology 239 :Notes 249 : Index 269
650			_2Same-Sex Marriage - U S A - India
650			_2Aspiring to Union: Twentieth-Century Cinema
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