Hijras, Lovers, Brothers : : Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India / / Vaibhav Saria.
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized forms with begging and sex work. In more recent years hijras have seen a degree of political emergence a...
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