Ruth Vanita
Appearance
Ruth Vanitais an Indian academic, activist and author who specialises[1]in British and Indian literary history with a focus ongender and sexuality studies.She also teaches and writes onHindu philosophy.
Early life and education
[edit]Vanita earned her BA, MA and PhD in English atDelhi University.[2]
Career
[edit]From 1994 to 1997 Vanita was Reader in the Department of English at Delhi University.[1]She is now a professor of English and World Cultures at theUniversity of Montana,where she directs the program in South & South-East Asian Studies.[3]
While living in Delhi in 1978, Vanita co-foundedManushi: A Journal about Women and Society,a journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism. She served as the journal's unpaid, volunteer co-editor from 1979 to 1991.[1]
Major publications
[edit]Books
[edit]- 1994:A Play of Light: Selected Poems[4]
- 1996:Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination[5]
- 2005:Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West[6]
- 2005:Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture
- 2012:Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780-1870[7]
- 2017:Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema[8]
- 2020:Memory of Light(a novel)[9]
- 2022:The Dharma of Justice: Debates on Gender Varna and Species[10]
- 2023:The Broken Rainbow: Poems and Translations[11]
Edited volumes
[edit]- 1991 (ed. with Madhu Kishwar):In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices from Manushi[12]
- 2000 (ed. withSaleem Kidwai):Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History[13]
- 2002 (ed.):Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society[14]
- 2014 (ed.):India and the World: Postcolonialism, Translation and Indian Literature – Essays in Honour of Professor Harish Trivedi[15]
Translations
[edit]- 1994: Yadav, Rajendra:Strangers on the Roof,translated by Ruth Vanita, Penguin India, 1994 (updated edition with a new introduction 2014)
- 1997:Detha, Vijay Dan.Dilemma and Other Stories
- 2003:Bhandari, Mannu:The Great Feast(Mahabhoj)
- 2006:Sharma, Pandey Bechan( "Ugra" ):Chocolate and Other Stories on Male-Male Desire[16]
- 2007:About Me (Apni Khabar)(autobiography of Pande Bechan Sharma Ugra)
- 2008:The Co-Wife and Other Stories byPremchand
- 2013:Alone Together: Selected Stories of Mannu Bhandari, Rajee Seth and Archana Varma
- 2021:My Familyby Mahadevi Varma[17]
References
[edit]- ^abcMiller, Jane Eldridge, ed. (2002),"Vanita, Ruth",Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing,The Routledge who's who series, Psychology Press, p.333,ISBN9780415159814
- ^Global Feminisms Project (23 April 2004),Interview with Ruth Vanita,hdl:2027.42/55715
- ^"Ruth Vanita".University of Montana.Retrieved27 July2019.
- ^Review ofA Play of Light:
- ^Reviews ofSappho and the Virgin Mary:
- Marcus, Sharon (Spring 1998),Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,17(1): 146–150,doi:10.2307/464330,JSTOR464330
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Smith, Patricia Juliana (Summer 1998),Victorian Studies,41(4): 635–637,JSTOR3829029
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Oxindine, Annette (Winter 1998),Modern Fiction Studies,44(4): 1032–1034,doi:10.1353/mfs.1998.0101,JSTOR26285344,S2CID161210681
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Traub, Valerie (Summer 1999), "The Rewards of Lesbian History",Feminist Studies,25(2): 363–394,doi:10.2307/3178684,JSTOR3178684
- Edinger, Harry G. (Fall 1999),International Journal of the Classical Tradition,6(2): 319–321,JSTOR30222574
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Leonardi, Susan J. (Winter 2000),Signs,25(2): 549–552,doi:10.1086/495452,JSTOR3175567
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Altman, Meryl (January 2001),Nineteenth-Century Contexts,23(2): 309–313,doi:10.1080/08905490108583544,S2CID220349351
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- Marcus, Sharon (Spring 1998),Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature,17(1): 146–150,doi:10.2307/464330,JSTOR464330
- ^Reviews ofLove's Rite:
- Choudhury, Sonya Dutta (19 December 2005),"Moving through mythology and popular culture, this book celebrates the forbidden love that is at the centre of a raging debate",India Today
- Wilhelm, Amara Das (16 October 2006),Review,White Crane Institute
- Banerjee, Sikata (November 2007),Women's History Review,16(5): 798–800,doi:10.1080/09612020701447863,S2CID219611286
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Dave, Naisargi N. (Spring 2011), "Abundance and Loss: Queer Intimacies in South Asia",Feminist Studies,37(1): 14–27,doi:10.1353/fem.2011.0012,JSTOR23069881,S2CID245656522
- ^Reviews ofGender, Sex, and the City:
- Dasgupta, Rohit K. (December 2012),"Review",Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific,31
- Tomas, Lora (16 November 2013),"The laughter of women, the sparkle of Urdu poetry",Sunday Guardian
- Taneja, Anand Vivek (April 2014),The Indian Economic & Social History Review,51(2): 279–282,doi:10.1177/0019464614527537,S2CID144368758
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- ^Reviews ofDancing with the Nation:
- Sahani, Alaka (23 January 2018),"Courtesans brought older aesthetic traditions to the new nation",The Indian Express
- Menon, Krishna,"Through the Lens of Gender and Sexuality",The Book Review India
- Chintamani, Gautam (10 March 2018),"Power women of Bombay cinema: This richly detailed encyclopaedic account presents the changing role of the courtesan in Hindi films across eight decades",The New Indian Express
- FPJ Bureau,"Review",The Free Press Journal
- ^Vanita, Ruth (15 April 2020).Memory of Light.Penguin Random House India Private Limited.ISBN978-0-14-349766-0.
- ^The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species.Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 31 October 2022.ISBN978-0-19-285982-2.
- ^"Three Poems By Ruth Vanita".Outlook India.29 April 2023.
- ^Reviews ofIn Search Of Answers:
- douglas, carol anne (January 1985),Off Our Backs,15(1): 8–20,JSTOR25775289
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Banerji, Sumanta (June 1985), "Reporting to Each Other",Economic and Political Weekly,20(23): 997–998,JSTOR4374493
- Mohanty, Chandra Talpade (September 1985), "Voices from" Manushi "",The Women's Review of Books,2(12): 6–7,doi:10.2307/4019724,JSTOR4019724
- Nag, Moni (December 1985),Population and Development Review,11(4): 784,doi:10.2307/1973476,JSTOR1973476
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lewis, Linda S. (Spring 1987),Signs,12(3): 582–586,doi:10.1086/494349,JSTOR3174342
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- douglas, carol anne (January 1985),Off Our Backs,15(1): 8–20,JSTOR25775289
- ^Reviews ofSame-Sex Love in India:
- George, Annie (Spring–Fall 2002),International Journal of Sociology of the Family,30(1/2): 89–90,JSTOR23028779
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Burkhart, Geoffrey (February 2003),The Journal of Asian Studies,62(1): 322–323,doi:10.2307/3096220,JSTOR3096220
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - De, Esha Niyogi (Summer 2004),Signs,29(4): 1170–1175,doi:10.1086/380623,JSTOR10.1086/380623,S2CID225086502
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Kent, Eliza F. (January 2005),International Journal of Hindu Studies,9(1/3): 220–221,JSTOR20106958
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:CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Rishi, Jaydeep (Fall 2009),"Review",Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities,1(2)
- D'Souza, Dilip (13 December 2013),"Love and Gender, According to the Hindu Epics",The New York Times
- George, Annie (Spring–Fall 2002),International Journal of Sociology of the Family,30(1/2): 89–90,JSTOR23028779
- ^Review ofQueering India:
- ^Reviews ofIndia and the World:
- Ghai, T. C.,"Review",Fortell
- Gautam, Nishtha (5 September 2015),"The Many Crimes Of Professor Harish Trivedi",Huffington Post
- Dasthakur, Saurav (2016),"Review",IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature,10(1): 279–284
- ^Review ofUgra:
- ^Varma, Mahadevi (16 August 2021).My Family.Penguin Random House India Private Limited.ISBN978-93-5492-158-2.
External links
[edit]- Ayyar, Raj. (2001-03-05). "Reclaiming Gay India with Ruth Vanita".GayToday.Retrieved on 2007-07-11.
- "Gay historians: Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai,"QueerIndia,5 March 2005
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- 1955 births
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- Indian lesbian writers
- Indian LGBTQ rights activists
- Indian LGBTQ writers
- Living people
- Postmodern feminists
- University of Montana faculty
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- 20th-century Indian translators
- Indian social sciences writers
- 20th-century Indian women writers
- 20th-century Indian social scientists
- 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers
- Indian women translators
- Women writers from Delhi
- Historians of LGBTQ topics
- Indian women historians
- 21st-century Indian historians
- 20th-century Indian historians
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