With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy
- Bib ID:
- 3299769
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Reddy, Gayatri
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005
- xi, 310 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0226707555
- 0226707563
- Series:
- Worlds of desire.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Transsexuals -- India, South
- Transsexualism -- 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
- Cross-dressing -- Religious aspects -- Islam
- Prostitution -- India, South
- Hyderabad (India) -- Social life and customs
- Secunderābād (India) -- Social life and customs
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2005
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