With Respect to Sex
Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
Cloth $60.00
ISBN: 9780226707556
Published June 2005
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Published June 2005
Acknowledgments 1. The Ethnographic Setting 2. Hijras, Individuality, and Izzat 3. Cartographies of Sex/Gender 4. Sacred Legitimization, Corporeal Practice: Hindu Iconography and Hijra Renunciation 5. "We Are All Musalmans Now": Religious Practice, Positionality, and Hijra/Muslim Identification 6. (Per)Formative Selves: The Production of Gender 7. "Our People": Kinship, Marriage, and the Family 8. Shifting Contexts, Fluid Identities 9. Crossing "Lines" of Subjectivity: Transnational Movements and Gay Identifications 10. Conclusion Appendix Notes Glossary References Index
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