Third gender
Walser, Joseph
Joseph.Walser at TUFTS.EDU
Wed May 9 13:50:59 UTC 2012
As I recall, the first chapter of Gayatri Reddy's book, WIth Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijira Identity in South India has a brief but decently thorough discussion of historical souces on the third gender. THis discussion starts on page 18 and cites most of the classic studies on the subject. The rest of the book is a pretty good read too.
-j
With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226707563/ref=ox_sc_act_title_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER> - Gayatri Reddy;
Joseph Walser
Associate Professor
Department of Religion
Tufts University
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Subject: [INDOLOGY] Third gender
Dear members of the list!
Do any of you know of papers / studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (homosexuality, transsexualism, lesbianism etc.)?
Best regards,
Lars Martin Fosse
lmfosse at getmail.no
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