Vanita, Ruth. <br/><br/>
Love's rite  same sex marriage in India and the West /  [electronic resource] : 
Ruth Vanita. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Palgrave Macmillan,  2005. 
 - xiii, 274 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index. 
<br/><br/>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 -- A second self: traditions of romantic friendship -- 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Same-sex marriage.<br/>Same-sex marriage--India.<br/>Same-sex marriage--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ1033  / .V36 2005eb