Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

The Hijra, c.1850-1900

Hinchy, Jessica

Cambridge University Press

03/2020

323

Mole

Inglês

9781108716888

15 a 20 dias

470

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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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