Hijras, Lovers, Brothers : Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India /

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Hijras, one of India's third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination-in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized forms with begging and sex work. In more recent years hijras have seen a degree of political emerge...

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Autor principal: Saria, Vaibhav (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2021]
Colección:Thinking from Elsewhere
Temas:
Gender-nonconforming people > India > Economic conditions.
Gender-nonconforming people > India > Social conditions.
Rural poor > India.
Anthropology.
LGBTQ Studies.
Queer Theory.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Transgender Studies.
Poverty.
Sex Work.
Sexuality.
South Asia.
Transgender.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men
  • 1 A Prodigious Birth of Love
  • 2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens
  • Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe
  • 3 Something Rotten in the State
  • 4 Love May Transform Me
  • 5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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