With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reddy, Gayatri
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Series:	Worlds of desire.
Subjects:	Transsexuals > India, South. Transsexualism > Religious aspects > Islam. Sex role > India, South. Sex differences > Indian, South. Sex role > Religious aspects > Islam. Gender identity > India, South. Islam and culture > India, South. Cross-dressing > Religious aspects > Islam. Prostitution > India, South. Hyderabad (India) > Social life and customs. Secunderābād (India) > Social life and customs.
Online Access:	Publisher description Table of contents

Table of 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.