01989nam a22001937a 4500 250716b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9783031469466 hard bound 23 306.768 VAK/T CC Transgender India : understanding third gender identities and experiences / edited by Douglas A. Vakoch Switzerland : Springer, 2024. Contents:- Introduction. Transgender to transperson : an overview of Indian histories of self, sex, and society -- Part I. Literature. Re-writing the subject and the self : a study of Hijra life writings -- Queer futurities in Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness -- Indian influences and the transgender imagination in the Chinese literary classic Journey to the West -- Part II. History. Contradiction and concurrence of castration and the fertile phallus : a transgender reading of ancient Indian literature and contemporary Hijra experience -- The colonial censu(re/ses) of transbodies in nineteenth-century South Asia -- Part III. Law. Differs in dignity : shame, privacy, and law -- Time to "act" : guaranteeing full citizenship of transgender person in India -- Part IV. Health and employment. Exploring the psychosocial needs of third gender people living with HIV in Hyderabad, India -- Employability issues of transgender individuals in Gujarat, India : an analysis of the origin -- Part V. Transmen -- Female masculinities and women of third nature : analyzing the gender and sexual politics of identity and visibility of alternative masculinities through Indian mythologies and literary narratives -- "Families we choose" : kinship patterns among migrant transmen in Bangalore, India. Transgender people—India—Social conditions Transgender people—Legal status, laws, etc.—India Transgender people—Mental health—India Vakoch, Douglas A. editor BK 347935 347935 0 0 0 0 ENG LIB LIB 2025-07-16 2 1 306.768 VAK/T 518830 2026-06-18 2026-04-16 1695.00 2025-07-16 BK