Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
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9780192873767
Publication date:
10/04/2023
Paperback
272 pages
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ISBN:
9780192873767
Publication date:
10/04/2023
Paperback
272 pages
Vaibhav Saria
This book recounts two years of living with a group of hijras in rural India. In this riveting ethnography, Vaibhav Saria reveals not just a group of stigmatized or marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires that trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.
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Vaibhav Saria
Description
Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.
About the author:
Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Saria is also a member of QuTUB, an international team of researchers working to advance methodologies to measure and improve the quality of tuberculosis care.
Vaibhav Saria
Table of contents
- Introduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men by Vaibhav Saria
Chapter 1 A Prodigious Birth of Love
Chapter 2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens
- Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe
Chapter 3 Something Rotten in the State
Chapter 4 Love May Transform Me
Chapter 5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me. . . . . . . . . . .
- Acknowledgments
Vaibhav Saria
Description
Against easy framings of hijras that render them marginalized, Saria shows how hijras makes the normative Indian family possible. The book also shows that particular practices of hijras, such as refusing to use condoms or comply with retroviral regimes, reflect not ignorance or irresponsibility but rather a specific idiom of erotic asceticism arising in both Hindu and Islamic traditions. This idiom suffuses the densely intertwined registers of erotics, economics, and kinship that inform the everyday lives of hijras and offer a repertoire of self-fashioning distinct from the secularized accounts within the horizon of public health programmes and queer theory. Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday laughter, flirting, and teasing to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.
About the author:
Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University. They received their PhD in Anthropology from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. Saria is also a member of QuTUB, an international team of researchers working to advance methodologies to measure and improve the quality of tuberculosis care.
Table of contents
- Introduction: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men by Vaibhav Saria
Chapter 1 A Prodigious Birth of Love
Chapter 2 In False Brothers, Evil Awakens
- Interlude: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe
Chapter 3 Something Rotten in the State
Chapter 4 Love May Transform Me
Chapter 5 I Have Immortal Longings in Me. . . . . . . . . . .
- Acknowledgments
Karen Valentin & Uma Pradhan
Biswarup Sen, Abhijit Roy
Dr Ravi Nandan Singh
Interrogating India's Modernity
Surinder Jodhka
India Social Development Report 2023
Indira Hirway
Family, Kinship, and Marriage in India
Patricia Uberoi
Surinder S. Jodhka
T. N. Madan
Subhadra Mitra Channa
