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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 August 2021
      09 December 2021
      ISBN:
      9781009037914
      9781316517048
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009037914
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 244 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Sociology of Gender, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology
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    This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation that embodies not only a direct contrast to hegemonic patterns of masculinity but also as an alternative subculture offering the possibility of varied forms of erotic pleasures and practices otherwise forbidden in mainstream society. While most studies view hijras as an asexual, emasculated, third sex/gender, this book calls into question the phallocentric logic that obscures alternative sites and sources of bodily power and pleasure, emphasizing how hijras craft their own subject position. Ethnographically rich and theoretically engaged, this book will cause a new, global re-examination of both hijras in particular and the wider range of 'male femininities' in general.

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