Lopamudra Sengupta

Human Rights of the Third Gender in India (eBook, ePUB)

Beyond the Binary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429534089
• Artikelnr.: 67483282

Autorenporträt

Lopamudra Sengupta is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Bangabasi College, University of Calcutta and has combined her academic career with policy advocacy and social activism. She has been engaged with the transgender movement in Kolkata for more than two decades. Her areas of research interest are human rights, gender and development studies in South Asia. She is the recipient of the UGC Travel Grant for International Conference (2018-19) and Shastri Publication Grant from Shastri Indo Canadian Institute (2018-19) for her monograph "Human Rights of the Third Gender in India: Beyond the Binary". She is the Project Director of a Major Research Project on 'Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development', awarded by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi (ICSSR, 2019). She is presently a member of the West Bengal Transgender Persons Development Board.