Recovering a Gender‐Transgressive Past

Skidmore, Emily

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“…To take one example, judging by historiographical reviews of US transgender history there has been considerable discussion of the anachronism of the term transgender, and perhaps more productively, of the potential of transgender as an analytical framework for “trans‐ing” history (analogous to queering history). But the analytical problems posed by translation do not appear to have garnered much discussion (Beemyn, 2013; Cleves, 2014; Skidmore, 2021). In contrast, hijra histories point to the politics through which people and their practices become intelligible and translatable as gendered categories, as is evident in the research of Abbott, Arondekar, Gannon and myself examined above.…”

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Hijras and South Asian historiography

Hinchy

2022

History Compass

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Since the 1990s, scholars of South Asia have framed the hijra community in a variety of ways, for instance, as a third gender, a transgender group, and an identity made through more than gender difference. Both interdisciplinary and historical accounts have debated the relationship between "hijra" and other gender, sexual or social subjectivities and categories. Hijra histories suggest that the community has often been at the center of historical transformations in governance, households, gender, embodiment, epistemologies, and political economies. Yet historical research has especially focused on the 19th century, raising questions about what a deeper genealogy of the term hijra might reveal about longer trajectories of historical change in gendered categories and practices. I argue that hijra histories may provide openings for gender historians to think critically about what precisely they mean by "gender." Moreover, because hijra and transgender studies from South Asia have foregrounded the geopolitics of translation, this literature prompts fruitful questions for the field of transgender history.

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Hijras and South Asian historiography

Hinchy

2022

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Materialist Girl

Peeples

2023

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly

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Beginning to reconcile the meaning of the contradiction at the heart of trans historiography requires two methodological insights. The first is a qualified recommitment to trans studies' partial global turn with a fervently anticolonial edge that recognizes the basic coloniality of trans as category. The second is a practice of historical political economy that can situate contemporary transness within longue durée colonial histories of class formation, social relation, and capital accumulation. Taken in tandem, these approaches demonstrate the need for scholarship that denaturalizes the category of trans and reinterrogates its economic and scholarly value if trans studies is to find a future that addresses its much-critiqued Eurocentrism and whiteness.

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Revisiting the Gay, Jewish Bicycle-Rider

Strassfeld

2024

A Journal of Trans and Queer Studies in Religion

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This article examines the analogy between gays and Jews in John Boswell’s scholarship in order to analyze the role of Jewishness in the construction of the field of history of sexuality. Boswell argues that Jews and gays have a similar social status throughout history until contemporary times, when gays continue to struggle while Jews have found a measure of social acceptance. The difference between them, according to Boswell, is that Jews pass down survival knowledge from within Jewish families, while gays are not generally born into gay families. While critiquing the sexual, racialized, and gendered politics of Boswell’s analogy, this article will argue that the current antitrans political moment requires us to return to the fundamental questions that Boswell poses about the relationship between history, the historian, intergenerational knowledge transmission, and communal survival.

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Recovering a Gender‐Transgressive Past

Cited by 3 publications

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Hijras and South Asian historiography

Hijras and South Asian historiography

Materialist Girl

Revisiting the Gay, Jewish Bicycle-Rider

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