Hijra (Asia Selatan)

Hijra adalah sebutan bagi seseorang yang mengubah jenis kelaminnya di Asia Selatan. Umumnya, kaum Hijra adalah seseorang yang mengubah jenis kelaminnya dari laki-laki menjadi perempuan. Seperti halnya kehidupan kaum transgender di berbagai belahan dunia, Hijra adalah kaum terpinggirkan. Mereka dikucilkan oleh masyarakat di sekitarnya yang tidak bisa menerima kehadiran kaum transgender.

Daftar pustaka

• Agrawal, Anuja. "Gendered Bodies: The Case of the 'Third Gender' in India". In Contributions to Indian Sociology, new series, 31 (1997): 273–97.
• Ahmed, Mona and Dayanita Singh (photographer). Myself Mona Ahmed. Scalo Publishers, 15 September 2001. ISBN 3-908247-46-2
• Gannon, Shane Patrick. Translating the hijra: The symbolic reconstruction of the British Empire in India. PhD Thesis. University of Alberta, 2009.
• Jami, Humaira. "Condition and Status of Hijras (Transgender, Transvestites etc.) in Pakistan Diarsipkan 2009-09-13 di Wayback Machine.", National Institute of Psychology, Quaid-i-Azam University (nd, 2005?)
• Malloy, Ruth Lor, Meen Balaji and others. Hijras: Who We Are. Toronto: Think Asia, 1997.
• Money, John. Lovemaps. Irvington Publishers, 1988. Page 106. ISBN 0-87975-456-7
• Nanda, Serena. Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India. Wadsworth Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-534-50903-7
• Patel, Geeta. Home, Homo, Hybrid: Translating Gender. In A Companion to Postcolonial Studies. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2000. 410-27.
• Reddy, Gayatri (2003), "'Men' Who Would Be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the Re-Production of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics", Social Research, 70 (1): 163–200 
• Reddy, Gayatri (2005), With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India, Chicago: University of Chicago 
• Zipfel, Isabell ' 'Hijras, the third sex' ' eBook with 34 photographs http://www.amazon.com/Hijras-the-third-sex-ebook/dp/B009ETN58C

Bacaan tambahan

• Basim Usmani. "Pakistan to register "third sex" hijras" The Guardian.
• Jami, Humaira. "Condition and Status of Hijras (Transgender, Transvestites, etc.) in Pakistan." Country Report, Quaid-i-Azam University.
• Kugle, Scott. Sufis & Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality & Sacred Power in Islam. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Pamment, Claire. "Hijraism Jostling for a Third Space in Pakistani Politics," The Drama Review 54, no. 2 (2010): 29-48.

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