Jessica Hinchy

Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

The Hijra, C.1850-1900

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Produktbeschreibung

Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9781108716888
• ISBN-10: 1108716881
• Artikelnr.: 59329080

Autorenporträt

Jessica Hinchy is Assistant Professor in History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

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.