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| Author | : Serena Nanda |
| Publisher | : Cengage Learning |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : |
This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how Hijras can be used in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation.
| Author | : Jessica Hinchy |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2019-04-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110849255X |
Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
| Author | : Vaibhav Saria |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2022-11-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 019287389X |
Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.
| Author | : Gayatri Reddy |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2010-05-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0226707547 |
With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India—individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies. This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality.
| Author | : Anosh Irani |
| Publisher | : Knopf Canada |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2016-09-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0345816765 |
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary page-turner--difficult and moving, surprising and tender. Anosh Irani's best novel yet, and his first with Knopf Canada. The Parcel's astonishing heart, soul and unforgettable voice is Madhu--born a boy, but a eunuch by choice--who has spent most of her life in a close-knit clan of transgender sex workers in Kamathipura, the notorious red-light district of Bombay. Madhu identifies herself as a "hijra"--a person belonging to the third sex, neither here nor there, man nor woman. Now, at 40, she has moved away from prostitution, her trade since her teens, and is forced to beg to support the charismatic head of the hijra clan, Gurumai. One day Madhu receives a call from Padma Madam, the most feared brothel owner in the district: a "parcel" has arrived--a young girl from the provinces, betrayed and trafficked by her aunt--and Madhu must prepare it for its fate. Despite Madhu's reluctance, she is forced to take the job by Gurumai. As Madhu's emotions spiral out of control, her past comes back to haunt her, threatening to unravel a lifetime's work and identity. This is a dark, devastating but ultimately redemptive novel that promises to be one of the most talked-about publications of the year.
| Author | : Zia Jaffrey |
| Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1997-07-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781861590558 |
In this extemely funnya dn fascinating book, Zia Jaffrey goes on a journey to find out just who the hijras are, why the subject is taboo and why their historyhas never been recorded. With the help of journalists, police commisioners, detectives and doctors, she delves into the mysterious world of the eunuchs and traces their tradition through layers of Hindu, Muslim and British history, and finally through talking to the Eunuchs themselves.
| Author | : A Revathi |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2010-07-10 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 8184752717 |
We got stared at a lot. People asked out loudly—some out of curiosity, others out of malice—whether we were men or women or ‘number nines’ or devadasis. Several men made bold to touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. Some attempted to grab our breasts. ‘Original or duplicate?’ they shouted and hooted. At such moments I felt despair and wondered if there would ever be a way for us to live with dignity and make a decent living. Revathi was born a boy, but felt and behaved like a girl. In telling her life story, Revathi evokes marvellously the deep unease of being in the wrong body that plagued her from childhood. To be true to herself, to escape the constant violence visited upon her by her family and community, the village-born Revathi ran away to Delhi to join a house of hijras. Her life became an incredible series of dangerous physical and emotional journeys to become a woman and to find love. The Truth about Me is the unflinchingly courageous and moving autobiography of a hijra who fought ridicule, persecution and violence both within her home and outside to find a life of dignity.
| Author | : Richard Guy Parker |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Health & Fitness |
| ISBN | : 9781857288117 |
This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.
| Author | : Adnan Hossain |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2022-02-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1316517047 |
Studies hijras in Bangladesh, challenging the dominant representation of hijra as either a third sex or a form of transgender.
| Author | : J. Michael Ryan |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2020-09-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0429513887 |
This volume seeks to explore contemporary trans lives in a world that is both global and increasingly globalizing, examining the nuances of the rights, identities, and politics that make up the varied spectrum of what has come to be included under the largely Western imposed label of "trans". Trans identities and rights have become increasingly prominent in the social imagination in recent years, and in a growing number of locales have also become hot button political issues. As trans individuals are demanding, and gaining, their rights, these debates are bringing issues of trans lives to the forefront of politics and into social discussions in nearly every country in the world today. In a series of essays covering the key themes of Identities, Rights, and Politics, this interdisciplinary collection presents an international range of topics spanning human rights and asylum seekers, to the Hijras of South Asia, and gender-affirming surgeries, all placing trans lives in a global(ized) context. This is an important contribution from a diverse group of established and emerging scholars seeking to position trans and transgender research in a global framework. It will be of key interest to researchers in Trans Studies, Gender Studies, Sexuality Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Sociology, Politics, and Anthropology and for introductory courses in gender and LGBT issues.
