In this paper‚ I explore the culture of the Hijras to learn how an outcast group that is looked down up on still has its role in traditional society. The Hijras are a transgender social group who are located amongst southern and mid-eastern Asia. They are a group of males who portray themselves as females in society and survive by engaging in begging and prostitution. They are also considered performers for special occasions in different societies. This group focuses on beliefs that are different
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In To Be Neither Seen Nor Heard: The Life of Faith Alexandra Kamya Nasolo Mulira by Jessie Ruth Gaston. Originally from Mississippi‚ Gaston received her B.A. in psychology at the Occidental College in Los Angeles‚ and received her Master’s in African Studies and Ph.D. in African‚ African American‚ and Middle Eastern History at the University of California‚ Los Angeles. Dr. Gaston currently works as a professor at California State University in the History Department. Moreover‚ she has also traveled
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When Public and Private Life Meet in Christiane Bird’s Neither East Nor West Neither East Nor West is a travel narrative by Christiane Bird about her travels in Iran. As a child Bird called Iran home‚ and wanted to go back as an adult after hearing about the country all over the news in her current home‚ New York City. In Iran‚ Bird experiences a large disconnect between the private and public lives of most Iranians; the people on the streets are very different from the people in the privacy of
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Neither Man Nor Woman: The Hijras of India In our culture‚ it is for us a belief and an evidence tha the biological term and gender term of “sex” refers for two sexes‚ males and females. Throught this book Neither Man Nor Woman by Serena Nanda‚ focused on the hijras of India‚ a community of outside members‚ I will examine how hijras are categorized as a third sex group and how homosexuality and transexuality takes place in their community with the importance for a hijras of having a husband. Second
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Neither Half Full nor Half Empty “Get off of me! Get off of me!” he yelled as he was being backed into the corner of the kitchen. Johnny was getting the shit kicked out of him but what was he supposed to do? Hit his own mother? After enough blood dripped down his face he had to do what he had to do. Johnny never thought of hitting his mother before but with a quick move he picked up in wrestling practice a few seasons ago he quickly ducked under his moms swinging arms and around her back to get
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Robert Frost once said that a poem “is at its best when it is a tantalizing vagueness.” Therefore‚ a well-written poem has the ability to engage its audience through its obscurity. “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep‚” is an ideal example of this opinion. The poem proves to be thought provoking and engaging among students and scholars alike as research shows that there are variations in interpretation of the poem’s content. The basic image conjured in this poem illustrates a succession of people standing
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Bill Bryson‚ the author of “ Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe”‚ writes about a time he backpacked in a foreign city called Luxembourg. Bryson’s purpose is to elucidate to the reader how Luxembourg contrasts from cities in the United States‚ like New York‚ and how strange it is to be surrounded by objects and people we have never seen or experienced before. He adopts a humorous and amazed tone in his writing in order to appeal to new travelers sense of adventure. Bryson opens his short story
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other parts of the world associating another term with gender. The Hijra community from the Hindu tradition classify themselves as the “third gender”‚ they consider themselves to be neither male nor female. The Navajo tradition also classifies a community of the Nadleehi people as possessing “two-spirits” or a third gender. Moreover‚ the Hijra and Nadleehi are mostly referred to as being a man woman‚ but not only a man or only a woman. Some Hijra’s and Nadleehi’s are born with only male genitals‚ while
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The hijras of India are unlike any you might see in any other part of the world. You might have occasionally come across men dressed as women‚ wearing garishly bright makeup. They immediately attract attention to themselves for all the wrong reasons and most often win ridicule. We are really not sure if eunuch‚ transvestite‚ gay or transgender is actually the right term for a hijra as their social mores are very unique and are almost above classification by western terms. One can attempt to
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The Wife of Bath as neither a Feminist nor Antifeminist character The wife of bath‚ a character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ has consistently been labeled as either a feminist or an antifeminist. Being to able to label her is not as easy as it first appears however. She displays behavior and speech at various times throughout her prologue and story that when taken by itself or out of context could lead a reader to make such a judgment‚ but when everything she mentions and uses
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