Book chapter
Decolonizing Transgender in India
The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, pp.175-188
Routledge
2022
DOI: 10.4324/9781003206255-19
Abstract
The increasing recognition of transgender identities as subjects of rights and citizenship is evident in a series of developmental, state, and legal policies, ranging from transgender- specific funding for HIV-AIDS prevention to recent directives in favor of transgender people’s rights by the supreme court of India. Emergent models of transgender identity certainly create new possibilities for social recognition and citizenship, but they may be colonizing precisely in the ways in which they may refuse or fail to comprehend many forms of gender variance relegated to the scale of the local. As an emergent hegemonic category, transgender may offer representation and upward mobility for people who fit official definitions, but it may elide or delegitimize working-class and dalit discourses and epistemologies of gender/sexual variance. Even pluralistic definitions of transgender often assume a stable model of gender based on primary, consistent, and singular identities, wherein trans people may have a variety of identities, but each identity is assumed to be singular, consistent.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Decolonizing Transgender in India
- Creators
- Aniruddha DuttaRaina Roy
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Transgender Studies Reader Remix, pp.175-188
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003206255-19
- Publisher
- Routledge; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2022
- Academic Unit
- Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures; International Programs; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984530557502771
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