Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance.
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After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.
Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"
Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.
The Problematic Priestly Body: Celibacy, Sexuality and the Trials of the Medieval Clergy
Many medieval clerics struggled to obey rules which said they must remain celibate.
Hyperbole and horror: hijras and the British imperial state in India
Nineteenth-century British imperial imaginaries took great delight in expressing the terror of, and a morbid fascination with, hijra bodies.