Adnan Hossain (The Netherlands Universiteit Utrecht)

Gebundenes Buch

Beyond Emasculation

Pleasure and Power in the Making of Hijra in Bangladesh

Beschreibung

This book is based on long term ethnographic research with hijras, the emblematic figure of South Asian sexual and gender difference in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation It brings gender and sexuality into conversation with concepts of class, power, pleasure, kinship, masculinity and globalization.

Autor

Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Graduate Gender Program, Utrecht University. His research concerns gender and sexual diversity, heterosexualities, masculinities, transgender and intersex studies, race and ethnic relations, bodies, nationalism, de/post-colonial studies and global inequalities in knowledge production.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9781316517048
• ISBN-10: 1316517047
• Artikelnr.: 61503877