Full title: "With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India" by Gayatri Reddy."With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social differences in India. 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.Hijras are men who sacrifice their genitalia to a goddess in return for the power to confer fertility on newlyweds and newborn children, a ritual role they are respected for, at the same time as they are stigmatized for t
