Beyond emasculation : pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh / Adnan Hossain.

"Hijra are a publicly institutionalized subculture of feminine identified male bodied people in South Asia who secretly desire 'masculine' men and identify themselves as non-men. Based on ethnographic research in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, this book contends that hijra bring into view an alte...

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Main Author: Hossain, Adnan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Physical Description:236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: pleasure, power and masculinities -- Kinship, community and hijragiri -- Class-cultural politics and the making of hijras -- Hijra erotic subjectivities: pleasure, practice and power -- The paradox of emasculation -- Practices and processes of gendering -- Love and emotional intimacy: hijra entanglement with normative Bangla men -- Contemporary transformation of hijra subjectivities -- Conclusion: shifting meaning and the future of hijras. 
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