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'''Ruth Vanita''' is an [[India]]n academic, activist and author who specialises<ref name="ww" /> in British and Indian literary history with a focus on [[gender and sexuality studies]]. She also teaches and writes on [[Hindu philosophy]].<br />
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== Early life and education ==<br />
Vanita earned her BA, MA and PhD in English at [[Delhi University]].<ref>{{citation|title=Interview with Ruth Vanita |author=Global Feminisms Project |date=2004-04-23 |hdl = 2027.42/55715}}</ref><br />
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== Career ==<br />
From 1994 to 1997 Vanita was Reader in the Department of English at Delhi University.{{r|ww}} She is now a professor of English and World Cultures at the [[University of Montana]], where she directs the program in South & South-East Asian Studies.{{r|profile}}<br />
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While living in Delhi in 1978, Vanita co-founded ''[[Manushi|Manushi: 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.{{r|ww}} <br />
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==Major publications==<br />
===Books===<br />
*1994: ''A Play of Light: Selected Poems''{{r|revplay}}<br />
*1996: ''Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination''{{r|revsappho}}<br />
*2005: ''[[Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West]]''{{r|revlr}}<br />
*2005: ''Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture''<br />
*2012: ''Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780-1870''{{r|revgsc}}<br />
*2017: ''Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema''{{r|revdance}}<br />
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===Edited volumes===<br />
*1991 (ed. with Madhu Kishwar): ''In Search of Answers: Indian Women's Voices from Manushi''{{r|revisa}}<br />
*2000 (ed. with Saleem Kidwai): ''Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History''{{r|revssl}}<br />
*2002 (ed.): ''Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society''{{r|revqi}}<br />
*2014 (ed.): ''India and the World: Postcolonialism, Translation and Indian Literature – Essays in Honour of Professor Harish Trivedi''{{r|review}}<br />
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===Translations===<br />
*1994: Yadav, Rajendra: ''Strangers on the Roof'', translated by Ruth Vanita, Penguin India, 1994 (updated edition with a new introduction 2014)<br />
*1997: [[Vijaydan Detha|Detha, Vijay Dan]]. ''Dilemma and Other Stories''<br />
*2003: [[Manu Bhandari|Bhandari, Mannu]]: ''The Great Feast'' (''Mahabhoj'')<br />
*2006: [[Pandey Bechan Sharma|Sharma, Pandey Bechan]] ("Ugra"): ''Chocolate and Other Stories on Male-Male Desire''{{r|revugra}}<br />
*2007: ''About Me (Apni Khabar)'' (autobiography of Pande Bechan Sharma Ugra)<br />
*2008: ''The Co-Wife and Other Stories by [[Premchand]]''<br />
*2013: ''Alone Together: Selected Stories of Mannu Bhandari, Rajee Seth and Archana Varma''<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist|refs=<br />
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<ref name=profile>{{cite web|title=Ruth Vanita|url=http://hs.umt.edu/ghr/faculty-staff/default.php?s=Vanita|publisher=University of Montana|accessdate=2019-07-27}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revdance>Reviews of ''Dancing with the Nation'':<br />
*{{citation|title=Courtesans brought older aesthetic traditions to the new nation|newspaper=The Indian Express|date=23 January 2018|first=Alaka|last=Sahani|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/courtesans-older-aesthetic-traditions-indian-hindi-cinema-5035186/}}<br />
*{{citation|title=Through the Lens of Gender and Sexuality|magazine=The Book Review India|url=http://thebookreviewindia.org/through-the-lens-of-gender-and-sexuality/|first=Krishna|last=Menon}}<br />
*{{citation|title=Power women of Bombay cinema: This richly detailed encyclopaedic account presents the changing role of the courtesan in Hindi films across eight decades|newspaper=The New Indian Express|date=10 March 2018|first=Gautam|last=Chintamani|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/magazine/2018/mar/10/power-women-of-bombay-cinema-1784122.html}}<br />
*{{citation|title=Review|newspaper=The Free Press Journal|author=FPJ Bureau|url=https://www.freepressjournal.in/book-reviews/dancing-with-the-nation-courtesans-in-bombay-cinema-by-ruth-vanita}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revgsc>Reviews of ''Gender, Sex, and the City'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Dasgupta|first=Rohit K.|date=December 2012|journal=Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific|title=Review|url=https://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue31/dasgupta_review.htm|volume=31}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Tomas|first=Lora|date=16 November 2013|newspaper=Sunday Guardian|title=The laughter of women, the sparkle of Urdu poetry|url=https://www.sunday-guardian.com/bookbeat/the-laughter-of-women-the-sparkle-of-urdu-poetry}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Taneja|first=Anand Vivek|date=April 2014|doi=10.1177/0019464614527537|issue=2|journal=The Indian Economic & Social History Review|pages=279–282|title=none|volume=51|s2cid=144368758}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revisa>Reviews of ''In Search Of Answers'':<br />
*{{citation|last=douglas|first=carol anne|date=January 1985|issue=1|pages=8–20|journal=Off Our Backs|jstor=25775289|title=none|volume=15}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Banerji|first=Sumanta|date=June 1985|issue=23|journal=Economic and Political Weekly|jstor=4374493|pages=997–998|title=Reporting to Each Other|volume=20}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Mohanty|first=Chandra Talpade|date=September 1985|doi=10.2307/4019724|issue=12|journal=The Women's Review of Books|jstor=4019724|pages=6–7|title=Voices from "Manushi"|volume=2}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Nag|first=Moni|date=December 1985|doi=10.2307/1973476|issue=4|journal=Population and Development Review|jstor=1973476|page=784|title=none|volume=11}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Lewis|first=Linda S.|date=Spring 1987|issue=3|journal=Signs|jstor=3174342|pages=582–586|title=none|volume=12|doi=10.1086/494349}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=review>Reviews of ''India and the World'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Ghai|first=T. C.|journal=Fortell|title=Review|url=https://www.fortell.org/content/india-and-world-postcolonialism-translation-and-indian-literature}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Gautam|first=Nishtha|date=September 5, 2015|newspaper=Huffington Post|title=The Many Crimes Of Professor Harish Trivedi|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/nishtha-gautam/festschrifting-the-crimes_b_8080764.html}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Dasthakur|first=Saurav|issue=1|journal=IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature|pages=279–284|title=Review|url=https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/767|volume=10|year=2016}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revqi>Review of ''Queering India'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Segal|first=Alan|date=October 2003|issue=5|journal=Gender and Society|jstor=3594718|pages=801–803|title=none|volume=17|doi=10.1177/08912432030175016|s2cid=220475442}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revlr>Reviews of ''Love's Rite'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Choudhury|first=Sonya Dutta|date=19 December 2005|magazine=India Today|title=Moving through mythology and popular culture, this book celebrates the forbidden love that is at the centre of a raging debate|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/books/story/20051219-book-loves-rite-same-sex-marriage-in-india-and-west-by-ruth-vanita-786330-2005-12-19}}<br />
*{{citation|publisher=White Crane Institute|title=Review|url=https://www.whitecraneinstitute.org/2006/10/white_crane_70.html|first=Amara Das|last=Wilhelm|date=16 October 2006}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Banerjee|first=Sikata|date=November 2007|doi=10.1080/09612020701447863|issue=5|journal=Women's History Review|page=798–800|title=none|volume=16|s2cid=219611286}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Dave|first=Naisargi N.|date=Spring 2011|issue=1|journal=Feminist Studies|jstor=23069881|pages=14–27|title=Abundance and Loss: Queer Intimacies in South Asia|volume=37}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revplay>Review of ''A Play of Light'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Manjari|first=N. Pranava|date=November–December 1998|issue=6|journal=Indian Literature|jstor=23342361|pages=174–177|title=none|volume=42}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revsappho>Reviews of ''Sappho and the Virgin Mary'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Marcus|first=Sharon|date=Spring 1998|doi=10.2307/464330|issue=1|journal=Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature|jstor=464330|pages=146–150|title=none|volume=17}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Smith|first=Patricia Juliana|date=Summer 1998|issue=4|journal=Victorian Studies|jstor=3829029|pages=635–637|title=none|volume=41}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Oxindine|first=Annette|date=Winter 1998|issue=4|journal=Modern Fiction Studies|jstor=26285344|pages=1032–1034|title=none|volume=44|doi=10.1353/mfs.1998.0101|s2cid=161210681}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Traub|first=Valerie|date=Summer 1999|doi=10.2307/3178684|issue=2|journal=Feminist Studies|jstor=3178684|pages=363–394|title=The Rewards of Lesbian History|volume=25}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Edinger|first=Harry G.|date=Fall 1999|issue=2|journal=International Journal of the Classical Tradition|jstor=30222574|pages=319–321|title=none|volume=6}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Leonardi|first=Susan J.|date=Winter 2000|issue=2|journal=Signs|jstor=3175567|pages=549–552|title=none|volume=25|doi=10.1086/495452}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Altman|first=Meryl|date=January 2001|doi=10.1080/08905490108583544|issue=2|journal=Nineteenth-Century Contexts|pages=309–313|title=none|volume=23|s2cid=220349351}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revssl>Reviews of ''Same-Sex Love in India'':<br />
*{{citation|last=George|first=Annie|date=Spring–Fall 2002|issue=1/2|journal=International Journal of Sociology of the Family|jstor=23028779|pages=89–90|title=none|volume=30}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Burkhart|first=Geoffrey|date=February 2003|doi=10.2307/3096220|issue=1|journal=The Journal of Asian Studies|jstor=3096220|pages=322–323|title=none|volume=62}}<br />
*{{citation|last=De|first=Esha Niyogi|date=Summer 2004|doi=10.1086/380623|issue=4|journal=Signs|jstor=10.1086/380623|pages=1170–1175|title=none|volume=29|s2cid=225086502}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Kent|first=Eliza F.|date=January 2005|issue=1/3|journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies|jstor=20106958|pages=220–221|title=none|volume=9}}<br />
*{{citation|last=Rishi|first=Jaydeep|date=Fall 2009|issue=2|journal=Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities|title=Review|url=https://rupkatha.com/book-review-ruth-vanita-saleem-kidwai-edited-same-sex-love-india-literary-history/|volume=1}}<br />
*{{citation|newspaper=The New York Times|title=Love and Gender, According to the Hindu Epics|url=https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/love-and-gender-according-to-the-hindu-epics/|first=Dilip|last=D'Souza|date=13 December 2013}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=revugra>Review of ''Ugra'':<br />
*{{citation|last=Knight|first=Lisa I.|date=December 2010|issue=2/3|journal=International Journal of Hindu Studies|jstor=41476628|pages=343–345|title=none|volume=14}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=ww>{{citation|title=Who's who in Contemporary Women's Writing|series=The Routledge who's who series|editor-first=Jane Eldridge|editor-last=Miller|publisher=Psychology Press|year=2002|isbn=9780415159814|contribution=Vanita, Ruth|contribution-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NOyZs4PRKxEC&pg=PA333|page=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincontemp0000unse/page/333 333]|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincontemp0000unse/page/333}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
* Ayyar, Raj. (2001-03-05). "[http://www.gaytoday.com/garchive/interview/030501in.htm Reclaiming Gay India with Ruth Vanita]". ''GayToday''. Retrieved on 2007-07-11.<br />
* "Gay historians: Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai," ''QueerIndia'', 5 March 2005<br />
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