ISBN:
9781009639965
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
616.85500867
Keywords:
Transgender women
Abstract:
An ethnography of transwomen and gender non-conforming hijras in India. Many people assume that recent attention to transgender issues, alongside new opportunities for trans people, represent positive change. Yet this book shows how members of marginalized groups experience social change differently.
Abstract:
Cover -- Advance Praise -- "New" Women -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: "Modern Girls": Conceptualizing the Trans Woman-Hijra Divide -- Trans Women and Middle-class Aspiration in India -- Trans Women and the Class-Caste Nexus -- Hijras Past and Present -- Recognition and Respect: Diverging Stories for Trans Women and Hijras -- "New" Transgender Women versus Hijra "Others" -- Trans Women, Hijras, and Overlapping Identities -- The Power of Conformity: Creating "Ideal" Trans Subjects -- My Path to Trans Women and Hijras -- Plan for the Book -- Notes -- 1 "New" Women and Old Hierarchies: Gender, Class, and Women's Opportunity -- Trans Women, Opportunity, and Identity (Work) -- Social Change, Class, and Respectability: The "New" Indian Woman -- The "New" Liberalized Woman -- "New" Trans Women: Opportunity and Symbolic Class Projects -- The Context of Bangalore: A "New" Aspirational City -- "Middle-class Aspiring": The Complexities of Class in Trans Women's Lives -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2 Sex Work versus Office Work: Gender Nonconforming Identities and Employment -- Introduction -- (Cis) Women's "Empowerment through Employment" for GNC People -- Office Employment and Contemporary Womanhood: Trans Women's Middle-class Aspirations -- Akrithi's Shifting Class-Gender Identities -- Does Transgender Have a Class Identity? -- Hijras' Limited Employment Options -- Media Accounts of Trans Women's Newfound Opportunities: Available for All? -- "This [Opportunity] Was Not There": Age and Trans Women's Perception of Opportunity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3 Hijra Families Today: Social Change and "Choice" for "New" Women -- Introduction -- Hijra Families: Creating Resistant Institutions -- Shrinking Hammams and Shifting Geographies of Wealth in Bangalore -- Hijra "Traditional" Relationships: The Context of Criminalization.
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