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With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India
- Title
- With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy.
- Author
- Reddy, Gayatri.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- xi, 310 p. : ill., map; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Worlds of desire
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-7307
- ISBN
- 0226707555 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226707563 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004015754
- OCLC
- 55887296
- Author
- Reddy, Gayatri.
- Title
- With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Series
- Worlds of desire
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-297) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-7307