Ruth Vanita

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Ruth Vanita (1955-) is an Indian academic, activist and author who specializes in lesbian and gay studies, gender studies, and British and South Asian literary history.

In 1978 in Delhi, Vanita was co-founder of Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society, a pioneering journal that combined academic research and grassroots activism, and also co-editor from 1979 to 1990. [1] She was associate professor at Miranda House and in the English Department at the University of Delhi and now is Professor at the University of Montana. She is the author of several books, and many literary translations. She has also published many articles on Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and Indian literature, in journals such as Shakespeare Survey, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, Comparative Drama, Postcolonial Studies, GLQ and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

[edit] References

• 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, March 5, 2005 ]

[edit] Major Publications

• Co-edited with Madhu Kishwar, "In Search of Answers: Indian Women’s Voices from Manushi" (London: Zed Books, 1984, revised edition Horizon Books, Delhi, 1991).

• Vanita, Ruth, A Play of Light: Selected Poems (Penguin India, 1994)

• Vanita, Ruth, Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)

• Vanita, Ruth and Saleem Kidwai (eds.) (2000) Same-Sex love in India: Readings from Literature and History. London: Palgrave Macmillan. New Delhi: Macmillan. Updated edition forthcoming from Penguin India, 2008. ISBN 0-312-22169-X

• Vanita, Ruth. Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society (New York: Routledge, 2002)

• Vanita, Ruth, Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the WEst (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan; New Delhi: Penguin India, 2005)

• Vanita, Ruth (2005). Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture. New Delhi: Yoda Press. ISBN 978-8190227254. OCLC 70008421. 

Translations:

• Yadav, Rajendra. Strangers on the Roof, translated by Ruth Vanita, Penguin India, 1994
• Detha, Vijay Dan. Dilemma and Other Stories, translated by Ruth Vanita, Manushi Prakashan, 1997
• Pandey Bechan Sharma "Ugra," Chocolate and Other Stories on Male-Male Desire, translated with an introduction by Ruth Vanita (New Delhi:Oxford University Press, 2006).
• The Great Feast (English translation of Mannu Bhandari’s Hindi novel, Mahabhoj) (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003).
• Twenty Short Stories by Premchand (forthcoming Penguin India)
• About Me (Apni Khabar) - Autobiography of Pande Bechan Sharma Ugra (forthcoming Penguin India)