{"product_id":"hijras-lovers-brothers-surviving-sex-and-poverty-in-rural-india-paperback","title":"Hijras, Lovers, Brothers: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVaibhav Saria\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cbr\u003eHijras, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngrossingly 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.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHijras, Lovers, Brothers \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping ethnography of hijras and their communities. Saria details the intimate, social, and economic structures that determine how hijras craft their lives, whom and where they love, and the losses they grieve. With startling insights, Saria shows how hijras shape and reshape those very experiences. An iconoclastic, vivid and deeply meaningful book.\"--\u003cb\u003eChandan Reddy\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Washington \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHijras, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst 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 or irresponsibility 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEngrossingly written and full of keen insights, the book moves from the small pleasures of the everyday--laughter, flirting, teasing--to impossible longings, kinship networks, and economies of property and of substance in order to give a fuller account of trans lives and of Indian society today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVaibhav Saria\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVaibhav Saria\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45685361279078,"sku":"9780823294718","price":71.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/Qk1oUjhXQmkzV2R3a2xBbGV1Uyt3dz09.webp?v=1780410789","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/hijras-lovers-brothers-surviving-sex-and-poverty-in-rural-india-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}