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Paperback With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India Book

ISBN: 0226707563

ISBN13: 9780226707563

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

(Part of the Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture Series)

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With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected...

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