With respect to sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India

The ethnographic setting

Hijras, individuality, and izzat

Cartographies of sex/gender

Sacred legitimization, corporeal practice : Hindu iconography and hijra renunciation

"We are all Musalmans now" : religious practice, positionality, and hijra/Muslim identification

(Per)formative selves : the production of gender

"Our people" : kinship, marriage, and the family

Shifting contexts, fluid identities

Crossing "lines" of subjectivity : transnational movements and gay identifications

Conclusion.