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Governing Gender And Sexuality In Colonial India
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Author : Jessica Hinchy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
Governing Gender And Sexuality In Colonial India written by Jessica Hinchy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with History categories.
Examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India.
Beyond Emasculation
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Author : Adnan Hossain
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-31
Beyond Emasculation written by Adnan Hossain and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-31 with Social Science categories.
This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation that embodies not only a direct contrast to hegemonic patterns of masculinity but also as an alternative subculture offering the possibility of varied forms of erotic pleasures and practices otherwise forbidden in mainstream society. While most studies view hijras as an asexual, emasculated, third sex/gender, this book calls into question the phallocentric logic that obscures alternative sites and sources of bodily power and pleasure, emphasizing how hijras craft their own subject position. Ethnographically rich and theoretically engaged, this book will cause a new, global re-examination of both hijras in particular and the wider range of 'male femininities' in general.
Hijras The Labelled Deviants
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Author : Satish Kumar Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Gyan Books
Release Date : 1989
Hijras The Labelled Deviants written by Satish Kumar Sharma and has been published by Gyan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Eunuchs categories.
The book studies of the third gender with sociologically relevant insights in areas of their deviants, role & identity formation and the institutionalization of the non-normal role: methods of the role, patterns of recruitment and socialization, rewards, stress and strains of the role and the third sex s organizational structure.
Hijra Story And Significance
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Author : Zakaria Bashier
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Hijra Story And Significance written by Zakaria Bashier and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Din categories.
This account of the Hijra - the departure of the Prophet from Makkah (Mecca) to Yathrib (now Medina) - is a story of endurance and triumph in the face of seemingly insuperable adversity.
The Hijras An Alternative Gender Role In India
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Author : Nina Daub
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2014-08-21
The Hijras An Alternative Gender Role In India written by Nina Daub and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-21 with Social Science categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Relationships and Family, grade: 1,0, University of Trier, language: English, abstract: Still, in every culture there are people whose sex cannot be clearly identified or who do not identify with the gender that is designated for them. These individuals are in a state of liminality, which means that they are in a situation that is “ambiguous or indeterminate” (Boyd and Lassiter 218). The word liminality comes from the Latin word limen, which means “threshold”. Hence, these people cannot exactly classify themselves as belonging to one or the other sex or gender. A famous example of such people are the hijras of India who represent an alternative or mixed sex/gender role since they “are culturally conceptualized as neither man nor woman, neither male nor female” (Nanda 2008: 461). The hijras, the so called third gender in India, are usually represented by biological males who take on a feminine gender or sexual role. They are “people whom we in the West would differentiate as eunuchs, homosexuals, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and transvestites” (Nanda 1993: 175). However, a great difference between alternative genders in India and the West can be seen especially concerning their social acceptance. Our Western culture, “where ideas about sex and gender are conflated rather than viewed separately, [is] not well socialized to the possibility of gender variation” (Boyd and Lassiter 217), whereas the hijra’s “role is so deeply rooted in Indian culture that it can accommodate a wide variety of [...] gender identities [and] cross-gender behaviors [...]” (Nanda 1993: 175). Why the hijras of India take an established role within Hindu culture, who they really are, and what their role in society actually is, will be presented in this work.
Neither Man Nor Woman
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Author : Serena Nanda
language : en
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Release Date : 1999
Neither Man Nor Woman written by Serena Nanda and has been published by Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Social Science categories.
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.
Hijra
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Author : Ash Kotak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-04
Hijra written by Ash Kotak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-04 with Drama categories.
Whilst on holiday in India and avoiding his mother's pleas to marry, British-born Asian Nils falls in love with Raj, who lives in a house of Hijras (eunuchs). A plan is hatched to smuggle Raj as Nils' wife back to Wembley, and it takes all the resources of Guru Hijra's supernatural support to avoid disaster thereafter. Bombay and Wembley collide in this comedy drama which explores community, sexuality and identity. Hijra was performed at The West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 2002.
With Respect To Sex
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Author : Gayatri Reddy
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-05-15
With Respect To Sex written by Gayatri Reddy and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-15 with Social Science categories.
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.
The Truth About Me
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Author : Rēvati
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
The Truth About Me written by Rēvati and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Autobiography of an eunuch from Tamil Nadu.
Education Inequality And Global Justice For The Third Gender Hijras In India
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Author : Alpona Halder
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-04-08
Education Inequality And Global Justice For The Third Gender Hijras In India written by Alpona Halder and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-08 with Social Science categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Gender Studies, University of Manchester, language: English, abstract: Far and beyond the world of education and global social justice lays the unknown mysterious world of Eunuchs who are better known as Hijras in India. The reality of their existence is still a secret and their omnipresence in the Indian society is unavoidable. They have always remained an integral part of the Indian society from ancient time. But unfortunately their present state of existence has been reduced to abject poverty, illiteracy, hatred and mockery. Strangely when the whole world is immersed in the rights and laws for gays and other homosexuals; the Hijras are still living in the shadow of rejection from every basic right to equality and education. They have only become the topic for exploration and research for their strange appearances. The world at large has forgotten that they are also human beings and have equal rights like everybody. The negative attitude of the people and their segregation from the society has left them with no opportunity. The Indian government has only given them the right to vote but they face a bleak future without any access to education.