Ruth Vanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises[1] in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies. She also teaches and writes on Hindu philosophy.
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RuthVanita is an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises in British and Indian literary history with a focus on gender and sexuality studies...
those from rural and lower-caste backgrounds. In her book, Love's Rite, RuthVanita examines the phenomenon of same-sex weddings, many by Hindu rites, which...
Council of Social Science Research. Kishwar along with fellow-academic RuthVanita co-founded the journal Manushi. Whilst her earlier work were favorably...
Vanita is both a surname and a feminine given name. Notable people with the surname include: RuthVanita (born 1955), Indian academic Vicky Vanita (1948–2007)...
affability the perception of this culture by a public of simple people. RuthVanita has called attention to the account in multiple versions of Krittivasi...
seem to be "artificially mixed and assembled into a kind of collage". RuthVanita suggests that Ayyappan probably emerged from the fusion of a Dravidian...
1215/10642684-11-4-547. RuthVanita, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). RuthVanita, 'Naming Love: The...
Sentient Publications. ISBN 978-1-59181-060-5. Retrieved 20 July 2012. RuthVanita (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality...
the queer community". orinam. 21 April 2013. Retrieved 18 May 2022. RuthVanita; Saleem Kidwai, eds. (2008). Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History...
input and use of bodily fluids such as sweat or menstrual blood, but RuthVanita points out that Hindus consider Ganesha's birth auspicious, and that...
Tamil region before the 1940s. According to researchers Eliza Kent, RuthVanita and Saleem Kidwai, the legends in the Ayyappa tradition seem to be "artificially...
— Barani Based on Barani's description, several scholars including RuthVanita and Saleem Kidwai among others believe that Alauddin and Kafur were in...
original on July 15, 2015. Retrieved July 30, 2015. Salisbury, Vanita (November 27, 2013). "Dr. Ruth Has Seen the Play About Her Life More Than Fifteen Times"...
reform and Indian independence from the British Empire. In the words of RuthVanita, "he delighted in iconoclasm; few writers of the time match his unsentimental...
: Hackett Pub. Co. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-1-60384-849-7. OCLC 789148479. RuthVanita; Saleem Kidwai (2000). Same-sex love in India : readings from literature...
over the administration to him. Based on Barani's description, scholars RuthVanita and Saleem Kidwai believe that Alauddin and Kafur were in a homosexual...
and activism. The magazine was founded in 1978 by Madhu Kishwar and RuthVanita, two scholars based in New Delhi. It is currently published as a bi-monthly;...
examples of the hermaphrodite Shikhandi and Arjuna who became a eunuch. RuthVanita argues that ancient India was relatively tolerant and views on it were...
method acting to play real women. Academic writers Madhu Kishwar and RuthVanita of the feminist magazine Manushi noted Kapadia for being unafraid to...
deshmukh and the deshpande in the pargana, were the official watandars. RuthVanita (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality...
ritualized in festivals such as raksha-bandhan."), scholar and activist RuthVanita ("a festival widely celebrated in north India."), anthropologist James...
exception to the general silence about female homosexuality. According to RuthVanita, this invisibility disappeared with the release of a film titled Fire...
poems and ghazals shows allusions and references to beloved male lovers. RuthVanita, Saleem Kidwai, p 119, Same-sex love in India: readings from literature...
generated by the dialogue as well as the acting." Academic and activist RuthVanita has a different take on the film. She sees it as an interesting attempt...
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