‘New’ Women
Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34343-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-34343-5 (ISBN)
An ethnography of transwomen and gender non-conforming hijras in India. Many people assume that recent attention to transgender issues, alongside new opportunities for trans people, represent positive change. Yet this book shows how members of marginalized groups experience social change differently.
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 non-conforming 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 middle-class, 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.
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 non-conforming 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 middle-class, 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.
Liz Mount is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Texas Tech University. 'New' Women is her first book.
Introduction. 'Modern Girls': Conceptualizing the Trans Woman–Hijra Divide; 1. 'New' Women and Old Hierarchies: Gender, Class, and Women's Opportunity; 2. Sex Work versus Office Work: Gender Nonconforming Identities and Employment; 3. Hijra Families Today: Social Change and 'Choice' for 'New' Women; 4. 'You Can Do Whatever': Shifting Authority in Hijra Family Relationships; 5. A Family Resemblance: Explaining Changes in Hijra Relationships; Conclusion: 'I am Not a Hijra': Opportunities, Inequalities, and the Perils of Inclusion; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-34343-2 / 1009343432 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-34343-5 / 9781009343435 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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