Original title: "Les hijras: Portrait socioreligieux d'une communauté transgenre sud-asiatique" (Hijras: Socio-religious portrait of a South Asian transgender community) by Mathieu Boisvert.Hijras, often referred to as "transgender" by Westerners, are a distinct community whose identity underpinnings transcend sexual orientation alone. This "third gender" is presented with great finesse in this book, which examines, among other things, family structures, perceptions of aging, human rights issues, and rituals of all kinds – from birth to death to community integration, marriage, or castration.
