With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy

Englisch

Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, c 2005

XI, 310 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 24 cm

Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke***Unchanged reprints that were published later are included here

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-70755-6 : cloth : alk. paper

978-0-226-70756-3 : pbk. : alk. paper

0-226-70755-5 cloth : alk. paper

0-226-70756-3 pbk. : alk. paper

9780226707556

*Indien Süd / Crossdressing / Sexualität / Islam

*Transgender people -- India, South ; Gender nonconformity -- 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 customs

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HQ77.95.I4 ; HQ77.95.I4R43 2005

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 305.3/0954;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation:

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

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004015754.html [Table of contents]

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0616/2004015754-b.html [Contributor biographical information]

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