Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts: antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths": racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state: phase one of the struggle against Section 377 -- State versus sexuality: decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context -- Afterlives
Summary:
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.
