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Neither man nor woman : the Hijras of India

This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how Hijras can be used in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation
Print Book, English, ©1990
Wadsworth Pub. Co., Belmont, Calif., ©1990
xxv, 170 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
9780534122041, 9780534509033, 0534122043, 0534509037
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Hijra roles in Indian society
Hijras as neither man nor woman
Emasculation ritual among the hijras
Social organization and economic adaptation
Kamladevi: a prostitute
Meera: a new guru
Sushila: achieving respect
Salima: an outcast
Hijra lives in context
The hijra in cross-cultural perspective