The emergence and reproduction of hegemonic masculinities in state-level institutional
practices in a developing country like Bangladesh are still underresearched. Since its …

Purpose This study aims to evaluate the current educational opportunities available to
hermaphrodite (Hijra) students, analyze their difficulties while pursuing academic degrees …

Peter Geschiere's most recent writings have come to attend, in increasing detail, to the moral
and political panic provoked by the alleged rise of “homosexuality” in Cameroun. This article …

Popularly described as neither men nor women or a third sex/gender, hijras exist as vibrant
and variegated subcultures across South Asia despite colonial and postcolonial …

Since the 1990s, scholars of South Asia have framed the hijra community in a variety of
ways, for instance, as a third gender, a transgender group, and an identity made through …

TH E INTEREST IN DEUNIVERSALIZING the West is so common nowadays that it is hard to
imagine postcolonial criticism without it. 1 Even so, historians of gender and sexuality seem …

The queer movement in Bangladesh suffered a crisis in 2016 with the murder of two
activists, leading to an unwanted hyper-visibility in wider society, and a chilling effect on …

When we consider the historical and contemporary reality of gender identities, we frequently
find cases that defy the static classification that is usual in personal records, whether digital …

Queer, trans and gender histories have destabilised concepts of childhood and adolescence
and thereby shown how age‐stratification and normative notions of time are produced …

At a time when states are increasingly hostile to the international rights regime, human rights
activists have turned to non-state and sub-state actors to begin the implementation of human …