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The law of desire : (Record no. 212700)
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| fixed length control field | 02541cam a22002655i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 22558150 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20240905145255.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 220523s2021 ii 000 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2022326754 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9789354471155 (hardback) |
| 025 ## - OVERSEAS ACQUISITION NUMBER | |
| Overseas acquisition number | I-E-2022326754; 69-91; 71-91 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE | |
| Authentication code | lcode |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 306.810 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Menon, Madhavi |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The law of desire : |
| Remainder of title | rulings on sex and sexuality in India / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Madhavi Menon. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New Delhi : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Speaking Tiger Books LLP, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 148 pages |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Rs. 499.00 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Premble;<br/>Criminal;<br/>Immoral;<br/>Obscene;<br/>Unnatural;<br/>Amendment;<br/>Annexur I: Notes;<br/>Annexur II: Bibliography;<br/>Annexure III; Court cases & statutes;<br/>Acknowledgements. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Can a woman choose whom to marry if her father disapproves of the match? Does sex remain sex when it becomes work? Can a man become a woman because he feels like one? Is it the law’s task to ensure heterosexuality? Does reproduction need to be regulated?<br/><br/>The State attempts, with law as its instrument, to answer these questions for us, through legislation and, when contested, through court judgments. This brilliantly insightful and superbly argued book calls into serious question the wisdom?indeed, the intent?of our lawmakers and the judiciary. Though India’s laws and courts claim to know what they mean when they declare an expression of desire immoral or criminal, obscene or unnatural, upon inquiry, they turn out to be building on very weak and often casteist and patriarchal assumptions. Thus we have the law struggling to ‘rescue’ ‘fallen women’, for sex work cannot be work, but a sign of immorality; a Supreme Court judge can exonerate the artist M.F. Husain on charges of obscenity, but also claim that ‘obscenity lies in the eyes of the beholder’, leaving us wondering how, then, the law can ever define what’s obscene; and while a court may declare that the ‘third gender’ has fundamental rights, no one really knows what fundamental rights have to do with gender in the first place.<br/><br/>Teacher and queer theorist Madhavi Menon?author of Infinite Variety, a celebrated study of desire in India?shows us the ‘conundrums and paradoxes’ that result when the law is entangled with sex and sexuality?and why we ‘need to play with, rather than stay with, the Law of Desire’. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Materials specified (bound volume or other part) | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Checked out | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | HB | National Law School | National Law School | General Stacks | 05.09.2024 | Purchased - Feel Books | 499.00 | 4 | 306.810 MEN | 39790 | 12.11.2025 | 05.11.2025 | 05.11.2025 | 05.09.2024 | BOOKs | Recommended by Ms. Ajita Banerjie |
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