Jyoti Puri

Jyoti Puri is Professor of Sociology at Simmons College and works at the crossroads of sociology, sexuality and queer studies, and postcolonial feminist theory. Her new book, Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle against the Antisodomy Law in India, is forthcoming with Duke University Press (February 2016). She has published books, articles, chapters, and journal special issues on sexuality, state, gender, and nationalism, including Woman, Body, Desire in Post-colonial India (Routledge 1999) and Encountering Nationalism, (Blackwell Publishers 2004). She is a co-editor for the journal, Foucault Studies.