Transgender Identities

Regiane Ramos (Mato Grosso do Sul State University) shares a list of references that may be used in the study of transgender identities with a special emphasis on India. Here is her well-chosen selection:

• Dutta, Aniruddha, and Raina Roy. 2014. “Decolonizing Transgender in India: Some Reflections.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1, no. 3: 320–337. https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-2685615.
• Hinchy, Jessica. 2019. Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592208.
• Narrain, Arvind, and Gautam Bhan, eds. 2005. Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India. New Delhi: Yoda Press.
• Pattanaik, Devdutt. 2014. Shikhandi and Other Tales They Don’t Tell You. New Delhi: Zubaan/Penguin Books.
• Reddy, Gayatri. 2005. With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Semmalar, Gee Imaan. 2014. “Unpacking Solidarities of the Oppressed: Notes on Trans Struggles in India.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 42, no. 3–4 (Fall–Winter): 286–291.
• Semmalar, Gee Imaan. 2015. “Structural violence and the trans struggle for dignity.” Anveshi’s Broadsheet on Contemporary Politics 3, no. 1. https://www.anveshi.org.in/broadsheet-on-contemporary-politics/archives/broadsheet-on-contemporary-politics-vol-3-no-1/structural-violence-and-the-trans-struggle-for-dignity/.
• Sircar, Oishik, and Dipika Jain. 2017. New Intimacies, Old Desires: Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times. New Delhi: Zubaan.