Bücher von Jyoti Puri

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 groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women of connects important issues of class and nationhood to the emerging sense of female identity in India.