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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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