{"product_id":"hijras-lovers-brothers-surviving-sex-and-poverty-in-rural-india-hardback-9780823294701","title":"Hijras, Lovers, Brothers; Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (Hardback) 9780823294701","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHijras, Lovers, Brothers\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSurviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVaibhav Saria (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823294701\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 May 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e268 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 Bernard S. Cohn Prize, Association for Asian Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner, 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention, 2023 Anne Bolin \u0026amp; Gil Herdt Book Prize, Human Sexuality \u0026amp; Anthropology Interest Group\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 as a moral presence in Indian electoral politics, and with heightened vulnerability within global health terms as a high-risk population caught within the AIDS epidemic. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHijras, Lovers, Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e recounts two years 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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, irresponsibility, or illiteracy 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 beyond the secular horizons of public health or queer theory.\u003cbr\u003e Engrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday—laughter, flirting, teasing—to impossible longings, kinship, and economies of property and substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: That Limpid Liquid within Young Men   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e A Prodigious Birth of Love   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e In False Brothers, Evil Awakens   62\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInterlude\u003c\/b\u003e: Standing at a Slight Angle to the Universe   100\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e Something Rotten in the State   106\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Love May Transform Me   140\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5\u003c\/b\u003e I Have Immortal Longings in Me   179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   197\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   201\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReferences\u003c\/i\u003e   235\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e   249\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580463509784,"sku":"9780823294701","price":96.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hijras-lovers-brothers-surviving-sex-and-poverty-in-rural-india-hardback-9780823294701","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}