Public koti and private love: Section 377, religion, perversity and lived desire
@article{Nagar2015PublicKA, title={Public koti and private love: Section 377, religion, perversity and lived desire}, author={Ila Nagar and Debanuj Dasgupta}, journal={Contemporary South Asia}, year={2015}, volume={23}, pages={426 - 441} }
In this paper, we juxtapose the present-day Supreme Court battles over the colonial anti-sodomy provisions in the Indian Penal Code (Section 377), with everyday interpretations of carnal intercourse by kotis and jananas in order to visibilize a whole different social world of carnality. The responses to the law coming from the civil society formations (namely the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights organizations, HIV/AIDS organizations and women's rights organizations) are the…
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