This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation It brings gender and sexuality into conversation with concepts of class, power, pleasure, kinship, masculinity and globalization.
This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation It brings gender and sexuality into conversation with concepts of class, power, pleasure, kinship, masculinity and globalization.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Graduate Gender Program, Utrecht University. His research concerns gender and sexual diversity, heterosexualities, masculinities, transgender and intersex studies, race and ethnic relations, bodies, nationalism, de/post-colonial studies and global inequalities in knowledge production.
Inhaltsangabe
Glossary Introduction: pleasure, power and masculinities 1. Kinship, community and hijragiri 2. Class-cultural politics and the making of the hijras 3. Hijra erotic subjectivities: pleasure, practice and power 4. The paradox of emasculation 5. Practices and processes of gendering 6. Love and emotional intimacy: hijra entanglement with normative Bangla men 7. Contemporary transformation of hijra subjectivities Conclusion: shifting meaning and the future of the hijras References Index.
Glossary Introduction: pleasure, power and masculinities 1. Kinship, community and hijragiri 2. Class-cultural politics and the making of the hijras 3. Hijra erotic subjectivities: pleasure, practice and power 4. The paradox of emasculation 5. Practices and processes of gendering 6. Love and emotional intimacy: hijra entanglement with normative Bangla men 7. Contemporary transformation of hijra subjectivities Conclusion: shifting meaning and the future of the hijras References Index.
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