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Hijras, Lovers, Brothers - Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (Paperback)
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Hijras, Lovers, Brothers - Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (Paperback)
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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.
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