The Hijra of India

This episode is about the Hijra of India and the differing gender norms of India versus Western Europe.

Also, special guest, my cat Bella

Bibliography

Arondekar, Anjali. For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2009.

Cohen, Lawrence. “The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras, Jankhas, and Academics.” Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society (1995): 276-305.

Dutta, Aniruddha. “An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis) Continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India.” In Gender History Across Epistemologies, edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes, 305-329. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2013.

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