Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction. Transgender to Transperson: An Overview of Indian Histories of Self, Sex, and Society.- ParT 1. LITERATURE.- Chapter 2. Re-writing the Subject and the Self: A Study of Hijra Life Writings.- Chapter 3. Queer Futurities in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.- Chapter 4. Indian Influences and the Transgender Imagination in the Chinese Literary Classic Journey to the West (西遊記.- Part 2.- History Chapter 5. Contradiction and Concurrence of Castration and the Fertile Phallus: A Transgender Reading of Ancient Indian Literature and Contemporary Hijra Experience.- Chapter 6. The Colonial Censu(re/ses) of Transbodies in Nineteenth-Century South Asia. Part 3. Law.- Chapter 7. Differs in Dignity: Shame, Privacy, and Law.- Chapter 8. Time to “Act”: Guaranteeing Full Citizenship of Transgender Individuals in India.- ParT 4. HEALTH AND EMPLOYMENT.- Chapter 9. Exploring the Psychosocial Needs of Third Gender People Living with HIV in Hyderabad, India.- Chapter 10. Employability Issues of Transgender Individuals in Gujarat, India: An Analysis of the Origin.- Part 5. Transmen.- Chapter 11. Female Masculinities and Women of Third Nature: Analyzing the Gender and Sexual Politics of Identity and Visibility of Alternative Masculinities through Indian Mythologies and Literary Narratives. Chapter.- 12. “Families We Choose”: Kinship Patterns among Migrant Transmen in Bangalore, India.

About the Author

Douglas A. Vakoch is president of METI International and professor emeritus of clinical psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He has edited or co-edited more than twenty books covering gender studies, cross-cultural studies, psychology, sustainability, and the search for life beyond Earth, including Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on Environment and Nature (Routledge, 2021), Altruism in Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2013), and Climate Psychology in a Pandemic: Environmental Health in Lockdown (Oxford University Press, 2022). His formal education spans a range of disciplines that inform Transgender India: clinical psychology (PhD, Stony Book University), history and philosophy of science (MA, University of Notre Dame), and religion (BA, Carleton College). His work has been featured in such publications as The New York Times, The Economist, Nature, and Science, and he has been interviewed for numerous radio and television programs, including those broadcast on the BBC, The Science Channel, and The Discovery Channel.