'New' Women : Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India / Liz Mount.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mount, Liz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Recent global attention to transgender issues and new opportunities for trans people can appear as positive and progressive social change. "New" Women challenges this assumption through an ethnography of emerging trans women and traditional gender non-conforming hijras in India. In many countries, people identify as either cisgender or non-cis identities like transgender and nonbinary. India is unique for its recognized, yet stigmatized, gender nonconforming hijras. This book explores changes in hijra groups due to economic liberalization and LGBTQ+ advocacy, particularly the rise of the trans woman. Liz Mount locates trans women within patriarchal and postcolonial histories that shape ideal womanhood in India. As trans women align themselves with middleclass, respectable (cisgender) womanhood, they distance themselves from hijras, perpetuating their exclusion. Ultimately, this intersectional feminist analysis shows that new forms of gender identity can reinforce old inequalities and what appears as progressive change for some trans people can marginalize others"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: "Modern Girls": Conceptualizing the Trans Woman-Hijra Divide

"New" Women and Old Hierarchies: Gender, Class, and Women's Opportunity

Sex Work versus Office Work: Gender Nonconforming Identities and Employment

Hijra Families Today: Social Change and "Choice" for "New" Women

"You Can Do Whatever": Shifting Authority in Hijra Family Relationships

A Family Resemblance: Explaining Changes in Hijra Relationships

Conclusion: "I am Not a Hijra": Opportunities, Inequalities, and the Perils of Inclusion

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009639965

100963996X

9781009343428

1009343424

OCLC:

1453287980