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Il terzo genere? Koṭhī, hijṛa, kinnar e donne trans alla ricerca di cittadinanza nell’India contemporanea
Published 2021-07-07
Keywords
- hijra,
- kinnar,
- kothi,
- terzo genere,
- transgender
- India; hijra,
- kinnarkothi,
- third gender,
- transwoman,
- India ...More
How to Cite
Consolaro, A. (2021). Il terzo genere? Koṭhī, hijṛa, kinnar e donne trans alla ricerca di cittadinanza nell’India contemporanea. Storia Delle Donne, 16(1), 13–35. https://doi.org/10.36253/sd-11460
Abstract
Hijṛā communities from South Asia are often taken as an example of social acknowledgment of transgender in a ‘traditional’ context. Nevertheless, this exoticizing representation erases all distinctions among hijṛā, kinnar, koṭhī, third gender persons, transmen and transwomen, and other individuals whose gender identity does not conform to the man/woman binary. In this article, I will introduce the debate about identity construction of people that complicate the binary gender identity, within the framework of citizenship claims and homonationalism.