With Respect to Sex Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

Name: With Respect to Sex Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
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ISBN: 9780226707563

ISBN-10: 0226707563

ISBN-13: 9780226707563

Edition: 2005

Authors: Gayatri Reddy

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'With Respect to Sex' is an intimate ethnography that offers a positive account of sexual & social difference in India. The subjects of this study are the 'hijras' or the 'third sex' of India, that is individuals who occupy a liminal space between male & female, between sacred & profane.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration



The Ethnographic Setting



Hijras, Individuality, and Izzat



Cartographies of Sex/Gender



Sacred Legitimization, Corporeal Practice: Hindu Iconography and Hijra Renunciation



"We Are All Musalmans Now": Religious Practice, Positionality, and Hijra/Muslim Identification



(Per)Formative Selves: The Production of Gender



"Our People": Kinship, Marriage, and the Family



Shifting Contexts, Fluid Identities



Crossing "Lines" of Subjectivity: Transnational Movements and Gay Identifications



Conclusion


Appendix


Notes


Glossary


References