Bøger af R. Vanita

This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades.

Explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it becamea catalyst for the transformation of the ghazal.

This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades.