In this paper, I track how social actors in the city of Chennai Indian state Tamil Nadu contested boundaries thirunangai identity, preferred term for transgender women. Using a framework derived from linguistic and economic anthropology, show gendered personhood is contingent outcome value meaning given to migrations exchanges, where migration makes new subjectivities possible while curtailing ...

Why are modern-day Americans, especially members of the "baby boom" generation, so obsessed with health and physical fitness, despite the tremendous medical advances of the past hundred years? In Able-bodied womanhood, Martha H. Verbrugge suggests we must look beyond strictly medical explanations for an answer to this apparent paradox. Expanding upon the work of Lester S. King, Susan Sontag, an...

A Doll’s House (1879) by Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) is a play that follows the trajectory of Nora, woman belonging to 19th century Norwegian society, who has been forced stifle her vibrant personality survive within male dominated system. successfully presents an authentic glimpse life through experiences beginning realize suppression she subjected as result rigid understandings gender and sexu...