Title: With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India /
Authors: Reddy, Gayatri.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Sex role Religious aspects Islam; Transsexuals India, South.; Transsexualism Religious aspects Islam; Sex role India, South.; Sex differences India, South.; Gender identity India, South.; Islam and culture India, South.; Cross-dressing Religious aspects Islam; Prostitution India, South.; Transgender people India, South.; Gender nonconformity Religious aspects Islam; Sex differences.; Hyderabad (India) Social life and customs.; Secunderābād (India) Social life and customs.
Contents: 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.