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BL
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660232
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Puri, Jyoti
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Sexual states : : governance and the decriminalization of sodomy in India's present /\ Jyoti Puri
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| Series Statement
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Next wave
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1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
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| ISBN
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0822374749
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: 9780822374749
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0822360268
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0822360438
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9780822360261
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9780822360438
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| Contents
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Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section -- State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context
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| Abstract
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In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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Criminal justice, Administration of-- India
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Homosexuality-- Law and legislation-- India
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Sodomy-- Law and legislation-- India
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| LC Classification
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KNS4216.P87 2016
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