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Gayatri Reddy

With Respect to Sex

Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

312 pages, 11 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 map, 1 table  6 x 9  © 2005
Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

Cloth $60.00

ISBN: 9780226707556   Published June 2005

Paper $24.00

ISBN: 9780226707563   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
Subjects



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