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With Respect to Sex
Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India
Taschenbuch von Gayatri Reddy
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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 gender, queer, and sexuality studies.
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.
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 gender, queer, and sexuality studies.
Über den Autor
Gayatri Reddy is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 312
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226707563
ISBN-10: 0226707563
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Reddy, Gayatri
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Gayatri Reddy
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,445 kg
preigu-id: 102384824
Über den Autor
Gayatri Reddy is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 312
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226707563
ISBN-10: 0226707563
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Reddy, Gayatri
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 229 x 153 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Gayatri Reddy
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2005
Gewicht: 0,445 kg
preigu-id: 102384824
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