This article argues that religious mythologies and cultural narratives about the timelessness
of gender diversity in South Asia frame the formation of the transgender subject of rights in …

This article analyzes the frictions the rainbow flag creates between transnational, national
and translocal discourses and materialities. It focuses on the ambivalent role that the …

The late twentieth-century economic liberalization that transformed India from a License Raj
to a so-called NGO Raj paralleled a burgeoning interest in Indian hijra communities, aided …

Les hijras, souvent appelés «transgenres» par les Occidentaux, constituent une
communauté distincte dont les fondements identitaires transcendent les seuls aspects liés à …

This thesis explores the construction and use of the hijra figure in fictional literature. It argues
that hijras are utilised as both symbols of deviance and central points around which wider …

Indian mainstream feminist discourses, with their fixation on the universalization of Indian
women's experiences, have regarded gender as an unsophisticated category. This …

This introductory volume studies the challenges faced by the transgender community in
India. It traces the history of the representation of the community in Hindu texts to understand …

This essay focuses on hijras in India and on male women sangomas in Zulu gender-
differentiated possession cults in South Africa. We approach these individuals through the …

Abstract Following the April 2014 Supreme Court judgment, several attempts have been
made to define and specify what constitute the Indian transgender identity. My paper looks at …

The aim of this paper is to raise awareness of the humanity of hijras through their
autobiographies. The Truth about Me: A Hijra Life Story (2015) by A. Revathi will shed light …