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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India

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Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.

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Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India, Jessica Hinchy

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2020
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Titolo
Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
2020
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In brossura
ISBN10
1108716881
ISBN13
9781108716888
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Jessica Hinchy examines the colonial and postcolonial governance of gender and sexuality through the history of transgender Hijras in north India. She argues that gender, sexual and cultural practices were criminalised not simply through imported British norms, but due to a complex set of local factors, including elite Indian attitudes.