Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital.

The article discusses the correlation between sexuality and capital that accounts for subjects without mythologizing their histories, exoticizing their pratices, or discursively stripping them of nonerotic assets. Particular focus is given to aravanis or hijras in India. These people are called the...

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Publicado en:Social Text Vol. 24; no. 4_89; pp. 25 - 66
Autor principal: Patel, Geeta
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Duke University Press Winter2006
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