With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India /
Reddy, Gayatri.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Transgender people
Transgenderism
Sex role
Sex differences
Sex role
Gender identity
Islam and culture
Prostitution