With respect to sex negotiating hijra identity in South India

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reddy, Gayatri
Format:	Book
Language:	Undetermined English
Published:	Yoda Press 2006
Subjects:	Gender identity > South India Hyderabad > India > Social life and customs Islam and culture > South India Prostitution > South India Secunderabad > India > Social life and customs Sex differences > South Indian Sex role > Religious aspects > Islam Sex role > South India Transgender people > South India Transgenderism > Religious aspects > Islam
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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 hijr