With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy.
By: Reddy, Gayatri
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TextSeries: Worlds of desire. Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005Description: xi, 310 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0226707555 (cloth : alk. paper); 0226707563 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Transgender people -- India, South | Transgenderism -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Sex role -- India, South | Sex differences -- Indian, South | Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Islam | Gender identity -- India, South | Islam and culture -- India, South | Prostitution -- India, South | Hyderabad (India) -- Social life and customs | Secunderābād (India) -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 305.30954 Online resources: Publisher description | Table of contents only | Contributor biographical information | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prof. G. K. Chadha Library
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.