Against Taxonomy and Subalternity: Reconsidering the Thirdness and Otherness of Hijras of Gujarat.
This paper aims to demonstrate how we may consider the non-normativity of the people in India known as hijras. Because of their non-normative gender, hijras have been regarded and described as deviants in colonial documents and later dubbed “alternative gender,” “third sex,” and “third gender” by sc...
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2022-04-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7819 |
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