Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India.

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 1993| Author: Goldman, Robert P. | Copyright information

The virtually universal theme of transsexualism, the idea that a person can or should under certain circumstances change his or her original sex has had a particularly long, complex, and productive history in South Asia. From the time of the earliest known Sanskrit texts through the biographies of medieval and modern religious and political leaders, to contemporary fiction this theme has been closely connected with some of the region's most central theological, aesthetic, and social ideologie...

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