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Author	Reddy, Gayatri.
Title	With respect to sex : negotiating hijra identity in South India / Gayatri Reddy.
OCLC	55887296
ISBN	0226707555 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0226707563 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Publisher	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Description	xi, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	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.
	Secunderbd (India) -- Social life and customs.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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