Third gender

Abstract: We come to this discussion from anthropological experience as well as from personal transsexual experience. As the self-conscious subjects of our own inquiry into how anthropologists and transidenti* ed individuals alike use transgender-native models, we are ultimately invested in ensuring careful, responsible representation of individuals outside our culture. We are simultaneously committed to supporting transgender/transsexual scholarship, representation, and activism. If a common complaint among trans individuals is that their lives and identities are violated and misrepresented for the goals of scholarship, then it behooves us to make sure that we do not commit the same o/ ense against others for the goal of political advancement.

Abstract: The hijra (eunuch/transvestite) is an institutionalized third gender role in India. Hijra are neither male nor female, but contain elements of both. A devotees of the Mother Goddess Bahuchara Mata,...

Abstract: PROVISIONAL* Introduction* PreludesAveek Sen* Queering Cultural Studies: Notes Towards A FrameworkPramod K Nayar* Sexuality and GlobalizationDennis Altman* Us, 'Sexuality Types': A Critical Engagement with the Postcoloniality of SexualityAkshay Khanna* Risky LivesGeeta Patel* A Case of Radical Kinship: Edward Carpenter and the Politics of Anticolonial Sexual DissidenceLeela Gandhi* The Prurient Postcolonial: The Legal Regulation of Sexual SpeechRatna Kapur* There are No Short Cuts to Queer Utopia: Sodomy, Law and Social ChangeArvind Narrain* The Lesbian StandpointRanjita Biswas* Putting the 'B' Back in LGBT: Bisexuality, Queer Politics and HIV/AIDS DiscourseL. Ramakrishnan* Sexual Difference and its Discontents: Shifting Contexts of 'Thirdness' in HyderabadGayatri Reddy* Double Minorities: The Experiences of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Indians in the DiasporaSandip Roy* Section 377: How natural is normal?Nivedita Menon* 'Living the Way We Want': Same-Sex Marriage in IndiaRuth Vanita* Sappho: A Journey Through FireAkanksha Malobika* Rights for a Third Gender: Problems of Identity and RecognitionBhaswati Chakravorty* Kothis versus other MSM: Identity versus Behaviour in the Chicken and Egg ParadoxAshok Row Kavi* Ambiguous Practices: Sexual space and Spatial Sex amongst Men who have Sex with Men in CalcuttaPaul Boyce* False Appearances and Mistaken Identities: The Phobic and the Erotic in Bombay Cinema's Queer VisionShohini Ghosh* The Desiring Subject: Female Pleasures and Feminist Resistance in Deepa Mehta's FireBrinda Bose* Approaching the Present: The Pre-text-the Fire ControversySibaji Bandyopadhyay* Challenging the Hetero-norm in Art: Amrita Sher-Gil and Bhupen KhakarGeorgina Maddox* Agha Shahid Ali's Kashmir and the Gay NationHoshang Merchant* East-West Myth/Making in Suniti Namjoshi's Feminist-Lesbian FablesShivani Mutneja* Playing Woman, Playing Power: 'Performing the Goddess': A Reading of a Documentary on Chapal BhaduriAnuradha Ghosh