Love's Rite - Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West By Ruth Vanita

Introduction 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 Love's Rite: Traditions of Love, Friendship, and Marriage From 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 Conclusion