Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.
Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jessica Hinchy is Assistant Professor in History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. Solving the 'Eunuch Problem': 1. The Hijra panic 2. An ungovernable population 3. Hijras and Indian middle class morality 4. The 'gradual extirpation' of the Hijra Part II. Multiple Narratives of Hijra-Hood: 5. The Hijra archive 6. Hijra life histories Part III. Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination: 7. Classifying illegible bodies, contesting colonial categories 8. Policing, evading, surviving 9. Saving children to eliminate Hijras 10. Conclusion 11. Postscript: Hijras and the state in postcolonial South Asia.
Introduction Part I. Solving the 'Eunuch Problem': 1. The Hijra panic 2. An ungovernable population 3. Hijras and Indian middle class morality 4. The 'gradual extirpation' of the Hijra Part II. Multiple Narratives of Hijra-Hood: 5. The Hijra archive 6. Hijra life histories Part III. Surviving Criminalisation and Elimination: 7. Classifying illegible bodies, contesting colonial categories 8. Policing, evading, surviving 9. Saving children to eliminate Hijras 10. Conclusion 11. Postscript: Hijras and the state in postcolonial South Asia.
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