Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India - Hardcover
by Vaibhav Saria (Author)
Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.
Vaibhav Saria, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Saria is also a member of QuTUB, an international team of researchers working to advance methodologies to measure and improve the quality of tuberculosis care.Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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