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Encyclopedia > Gayatri Reddy

Gayatri Reddy is an anthropologist of India who has also made contributions to queer and gender studies. See Anthropology. ... For the novel by William S. Burroughs, see Queer (novel). ... Gender in common usage refers to the sexual distinction between male and female. ...


Reddy received her PhD in Anthropology in 2000 from Emory University and is currently an assistant professor in Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reddy has carried out fieldwork on a community of hijras in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in India. Her current research is on male queer identity among South Asian immigrants to the US. Emory University is a private university located in the metropolitan area of the city of Atlanta and in western unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. ... This article is about the University of Illinois at Chicago. ... Two Hijras bless a baby in a Hindu ceremony. ... Hyderabad or Haydarābād (Telugu: హైదరాబాదు Urdu: حیدر آباد ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. ... “Andhra” redirects here. ...


Reddy is the Association for Feminist Anthropology Program Chair for 2007,[1] and a member of the steering committee for the University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training at the Kinsey Institute.[2] The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to Kinsey Institute, exists to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction. The Institute was founded as the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington in 1947 by Alfred...


Bibliography

  • With Respect to Sex (2005)
  • (2003) ""Men" Who Would Be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the Re-Production of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics". Social Research 70 (1). 

References

  1. ^ "Business Meeting Minutes", Association for Feminist Anthropology, November 16, 2006, <http://sscl.berkeley.edu/~afaweb/Business%20Meeting%20Minutes.htm>. Retrieved on 2007-10-23
  2. ^ "Steering Committee", Kinsey Institute, <http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/ucsrt/steering%20committee.htm>. Retrieved on 2007-10-23

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External link

  • University of Illinois bio page


 
 

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