hijra

Tarkoititko: hiivatti

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Katso myös: hid¸ra

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englanti A eunuch in South Asia, especially one who dresses as a woman. (defdate)
1993, (w), City of Djinns, Penguin 2004, page 172:
When the Mughal court was disbanded, Muslim hijras were exposed for the first time to the other, Hindu, tradition of eunuchry.
A (typically biologically male or intersex, but sometimes biologically female) member of a somewhat feminine third gender found in India and Pakistan.
1995, Gayatri Reddy, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture), ISBN: 0226707563 http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16479.ctl:
The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and female, sacred and profane.
2011, AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (ISBN 030745472X), page 111:
Even more surprisingly, there are female hijras, women who were born women, who are drawn into the gharanas by the attraction and apparent safety of the hierarchies' substitute for family life.
2013, Raymond A. Smith, Global HIV/AIDS Politics, Policy, and Activism (ISBN 0313399468), page 208:
While videographers were shooting him as he sat on the floor among a group of male and female sex workers, two transgender (male-to-female) hijras came to sit next to him, one on either side.
2013, Readers Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies'' (ISBN 1135942412), page 280:
Nanda profiles (..) an uncastrated hijra who is married to a man and has an adopted son; and a hermaphrodite hijra (..)
(alternative case form of)
Any similar flight or emigration to a better place.

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hijra rimmaa näiden kanssa:

haara, asianhaara, oksanhaara, teollisuudenhaara, tieteenhaara, tienhaara, joenhaara, juurenhaara, ankkurinhaara, tuotannonhaara

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