{"product_id":"sexual-states-9780822360438","title":"Sexual States","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSexual States\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] knowledge of the myriad ways in which power works helps us to arm ourselves in our fight for social justice, individual rights and democratic freedoms. Puri's book gives us the helpful ammunition we need in our struggle.\" -- Ratnabir Guha * Telegraph India *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSexual States\u003c\/i\u003e is deftly crafted.… Puri employs multiple methods with aplomb and to excellent effect.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Joseph J. Fischel * Journal of the History of Sexuality *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Puri] not only adds to a growing corpus of literature highlighting the necessity of a theoretical and political alliance in resisting state surveillance and brutality among those persecuted as ethno-religious minorities and those persecuted as gender and sexual minorities; she also draws attention to the Indian context, and by extension post-colonial contexts more broadly, as a theater of knowledge production in its own right, with its own intersecting and divergent histories of governmentality, biopolitics, and, sexuality. This should be considered required reading for any scholars interested in the Indian state, postcoloniality and sexuality studies.\" -- Lars Olav Aaberg * New Books Asia *\u003cbr\u003e\"Puri’s book is an important addition to the critical sociological literature on sexualities, state, law, and biopolitics, not only for its theoretical sophistication but also for its empirical depth and rich ethnographic insights.\" -- Chaitanya Lakkimsetti * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSexual States\u003c\/i\u003e is a well-written book that will be important not only for how it makes us rethink sexual justice in India but also for the transnational framework it provides to understand the intricacies of sexuality, the state, and neoliberal processes.” -- Nishant Upadhyay * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States  3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Engendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality's Effects on Biopolitical States  24\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. Sexual Lives of Juridicial Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. State Scripts: Antisodomy Law and the Annals of Law and Law Enforcement  49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Half Truths\": Racialization, Habitual Criminals, and the Police  74\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Opposing Law, Contesting Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Pivoting toward the State: Phase One of the Struggle against Section 377  101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. States versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing and Recriminalizing Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context  126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterlives  150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  211","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406092607831,"sku":"9780822360438","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360438.jpg?v=1730494498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sexual-states-9780822360438","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}