Un/Desirable Encounters at the Intersections of Caste, Class and Religion

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3945741
AutoresElaine Craddock (autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume135
Fascículo1
Páginas126-140
Data de publicação2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/01417789231198158
OpenAlexW4389619710
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas14

Tamil thirunangais (or hijras) emphatically claim that in thirunangai kinship networks there is no caste, class or religion, that individuals are accepted regardless of their birth family. This kinship network creates a space of desirable encounters where thirunangais can reorientate themselves to their community as well as the larger public. Gender identity is central to thirunangai lives, but it operates in a nexus of other forces. Devotional practices within and outside the kinship community provide a space for thirunangais to transgress hierarchical norms of gender, caste and class and construct authentic identities empowered by divine agency

Agency (philosophy · Caste · Class (philosophy · Construct (python library · Epistemology · Identity (music · Kinship · Nexus (standard · Political science · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Tamil · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts