Beyond Emasculation - Pleasure and Power in the Making of Hijra in Bangladesh

Studies hijras in Bangladesh, challenging the dominant representation of hijra as either a third sex or a form of transgender.

List of contents

Glossary; Introduction: pleasure, power and masculinities; 1. Kinship, community and hijragiri; 2. Class-cultural politics and the making of the hijras; 3. Hijra erotic subjectivities: pleasure, practice and power; 4. The paradox of emasculation; 5. Practices and processes of gendering; 6. Love and emotional intimacy: hijra entanglement with normative Bangla men; 7. Contemporary transformation of hijra subjectivities; Conclusion: shifting meaning and the future of the hijras; References; Index.

About the author

Adnan Hossain is Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Theory at Graduate Gender Program, Utrecht University. His research concerns gender and sexual diversity, heterosexualities, masculinities, transgender and intersex studies, race and ethnic relations, bodies, nationalism, de/post-colonial studies and global inequalities in knowledge production.

Product details

• Authors: Adnan Hossain, Adnan (Universiteit Utrecht Hossain, Adnan (Vrije Universiteit Hossain
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9781316517048
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51704-8
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social interaction, Bangladesh, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Feminism & feminist theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory