With Respect to Sex

Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

Gayatri Reddy

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University of Chicago Press
01 July 2005

Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Physical anthropology & ethnography

Series: Worlds of Desire

"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 for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for their ambiguous sexuality. By focusing on the hijra community, Gayatri Reddy sheds new light on Indian society and the intricate negotiations of identity across various domains of everyday life. Further, by reframing hijra identity through the local economy of respect, this ethnography highlights the complex relationships among local and global, sexual and moral, economies.

This book will be regarded as the definitive work on hijras, one that will be of enormous interest to anthropologists, students of South Asian culture, and specialists in the study of gender and sexuality."

By: Gayatri Reddy
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780226707556
ISBN 10: 0226707555
Series: Worlds of Desire
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 July 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gayatri Reddy is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Reviews for With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India

This book is an important and significant one. Not only does it add to the field of academic accounts of the hijira and anthropology, but it contributes to gender and sexuality studies. --Shane Gannon Journal of the History of Sexuality