With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

by Gayatri Reddy

Book Overview

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane. Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226707563
• ISBN13: 9780226707563
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"