TY - BOOK AU - Nanda,Serena TI - Neither man nor woman: the hijras of India SN - 0534509037 (alk. paper) AV - HQ449 .N36 1999 U1 - 305.30954 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Belmont, California PB - Wadsworth Publishing Company KW - Eunuchs KW - India KW - Transsexuals KW - Sex role N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-180); Hijra roles in Indian society -- The Hijra as neither man nor woman -- Emasculation ritual among the Hijras -- Social organization and economic adaptation -- Kamladevi : a prostitute -- Meera: a new guru -- Sushila: achieving respect -- Salima: an outcast -- Hijra lives in context -- The Hijras in cross-cultural perspective -- Fieldwork among the Hijiras N2 - This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how Hijras can be used in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation ER -