Beyond emasculation : pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Hossain Adnan (1979-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-1-316-51704-8
- Sujets : Hijra (caste de l'Inde) -- Bangladesh, Masculinité, Rôle selon le sexe, Identité sexuelle, Bangladesh
- Comprend : Pleasure and power in the making of hijra in Bangladesh
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (236 pages), : Illustrations, couverture illustrée, 24 cm
- Pays de publication : ZZ
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en version numérique ; Références bibliographiques pages [215]-223. Index
Résumé
'Hijra are a publicly institutionalized subculture of feminine identified male bodied people in South Asia who secretly desire 'masculine' men and identify themselves as non-men. Based on ethnographic research in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, this book contends that hijra bring into view an alternative entry point into understanding and explaining the production, reproduction and transformation of masculinities. This book proposes the hijra as a counter-cultural formation that embodies not only a direct contrast to hegemonic patterns of masculinity but also as an alternative subculture offering the possibility of varied forms of erotic pleasures and practices otherwise forbidden in mainstream society. While most studies view hijras as an asexual, emasculated, third sex/gender, this book calls into question the phallocentric logic that obscures alternative sites and sources of bodily power and pleasure, emphasizing how hijras craft their own subject position. Ethnographically rich and theoretically engaged, this book will cause a new, global reexamination of both hijras in particular and the wider range of 'male femininities' in general'