"This book analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis, dhuranis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth. Going beyond the well-known 'third gender' hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBT identity politics"--
"This book analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis, dhuranis and hijras, a spectrum of feminine-identified people usually assigned male at birth. Going beyond the well-known 'third gender' hijra community, this is the first book to study the discourses and practices of related but underrepresented groups like kothis and dhuranis in small-town and rural India while simultaneously examining their relation to and role within LGBT identity politics"--
Aniruddha Dutta is Associate Professor at University of Iowa, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Vernacularization Chapter 1: The Scalar Emergence of the Hijra Chapter 2: Kothi and the Sexual Cartography of MSM Chapter 3: Vernacularization and Non/linear Gender among Kothis Chapter 4: Globalizing Ontologies of Transgender Chapter 5: The MSM-Transgender Divide Chapter 6: Metropolitan Queers and their Others Afterword: Afterlives of the Vernacularized Bibliography Index
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Vernacularization Chapter 1: The Scalar Emergence of the Hijra Chapter 2: Kothi and the Sexual Cartography of MSM Chapter 3: Vernacularization and Non/linear Gender among Kothis Chapter 4: Globalizing Ontologies of Transgender Chapter 5: The MSM-Transgender Divide Chapter 6: Metropolitan Queers and their Others Afterword: Afterlives of the Vernacularized Bibliography Index
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