Bibliography on Hinduism and
Homosexuality
Contributed
by Chad Bauman, Butler University
Abraham, K C.; Abraham, Ajit K. “Homosexuality:
Some Reflections from India,” Ecumenical
Review, January 1998,
50:1, pp 22-29.
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy and Hsu,
Minna J. “India's Homosexual
Discrimination and Health Consequences,” Rev. Saúde Pública,
August 2007, 41:4, pp. 657-660.
Bacchetta, Paola. “When
the (Hindu) Nation Exiles Its Queers.”
Out Front: Lesbians, Gays,
and the Struggle for Workplace Rights. Winter 1999, No. 61,
pp. 141-166.
Boyce,
Paul. “Moral Ambivalence
and Irregular Practices: Contextualizing
Male-to-Male sexualities in Calcutta/India.”
Feminist Review.
August 2006, 83:1, pp. 79-98.
Goldman,
Robert P. “Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India.” Journal
of the American Oriental Society 113:3. 1993. 374-401.
Isherwood,
Christopher. My
Guru and His Disciple (University of Minnesota, 2001).
Kole,
Subir K. “Globalizing
queer? AIDS, Homophobia and
the Politics of Sexual
Identity in India.” Globalization and Health (BioMed Central Ltd.: 2007).
Kripal,
Jeffrey. Kali's Child (Univ. of
Chicago Press, 1998).
Devdutt
Pattanaik. The Man Who Was a Woman
and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore (Routledge, 2002).
Rambachan,
Anantanand
“There are many branches on the tree of life:
The Irreconcilability of Hinduism and Homophobia,” in Heterosexism
in Contemporary World Religion (Snow Lion Publications, 2002).
Reddy,
Gayatri. With Respect to Sex:
Negotiating Hijra Identity to South India (Univ. of Chicago, 1995).
Vanita,
Ruth. Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage
in India and the West (Palgrave Macmillan/New Delhi: Penguin, 2005).
Vanita,
Ruth, ed. Queering
India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (Routledge,
2001)
Ruth
Vanita and Saleem Kidwai, eds,
Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (St
Martin's Press. 2000).
Ruth Vanita. “Wedding of
Two Souls: Same-Sex Marriage
and Hindu Traditions,” Journal of
Feminist Studies in Religion. Fall
2004, 20:2 pp 119-135.
Roy, Abhik.
“Regenerating Masculinity in the Construction of Hindu
Nationalist Identity: a Case Study of Shiv Sena.” Communication Studies, June, 2006.
Sharma, Arvind.
"Homosexuality and Hinduism," in Homosexuality
and World Religions (Snow Lion
Publications, 2002), pp 47-80.
Revised: January 30, 2009
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