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This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.

Table of Contents

Introduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men | 1
1 A Prodigious Birth of Love | 25
2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens | 62
Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe | 100
3 Something Rotten in the State | 106
4 Love May Transform Me | 140
5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me | 179
Acknowledgments | 197
Notes | 201
References | 235
Index | 249

Hijras Lovers Brothers Surviving Sex and Poverty

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 18/05/2021
      ISBN13: 9780823294718, 978-0823294718
      ISBN10: 0823294714
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men | 1
      1 A Prodigious Birth of Love | 25
      2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens | 62
      Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe | 100
      3 Something Rotten in the State | 106
      4 Love May Transform Me | 140
      5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me | 179
      Acknowledgments | 197
      Notes | 201
      References | 235
      Index | 249

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