Hilary Hinds. A Cultural History of Twin Beds. Home. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Pp. 296. $80.50 (cloth).
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DOI: 10.1017/jbr.2020.119
Abstract: fractured colonial regulation of gender and sexuality. One issue concerns Hinchy’s positioning of the hijra as the primary community targeted by the anti-eunuch campaign. While groups identifying as hijra certainly existed in the colonial period,… read more here.
Keywords: cultural history; hinds cultural; community; hijra ... See more keywords
Arṭāwīya and the Hijra Settlements in the 1910s: Origins, Daily Life, and Wahhabi Catechism
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DOI: 10.1080/21534764.2025.2502730
Abstract: Abstract In the early 20th century a collection of religiously infused settlements emerged in the center of Arabia. Known as hujar (sing. hijra), by the late 1910s the settlements numbered in the dozens with several… read more here.
Keywords: daily life; catechism; hijra; settlements 1910s ... See more keywords