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With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

Reddy, Gayatri

Paperback

Series: Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226707563
ISBN13: 9780226707563
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 1 2005
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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, 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 between local and global, sexual and moral, economies.

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