TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reddy, Gayatri
PY  - 2005
DA  - 2005//
TI  - With respect to sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India
T3  - Worlds of desire
PB  - Univ. of Chicago Press
CY  - Chicago, Ill. [u.a.]
KW  - Transgender people
KW  - India, South
KW  - Gender nonconformity
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Sex role
KW  - Sex differences
KW  - Indian, South
KW  - Gender identity
KW  - Islam and culture
KW  - Prostitution
KW  - Hyderabad (India)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Secunderābād (India)
AB  - 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
SN  - 9780226707556
LA  - English
N1  - Gayatri Reddy
ID  - 390549169
ER  -