The Transgendered Devotee: Ambiguity of Gender in Devotional Poetry:

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The Transgendered Devotee: Ambiguity of Gender in Devotional Poetry:

20 May 2018-Indian Journal of Gender Studies (SAGE PublicationsSage India: New Delhi, India)-Vol. 25, Iss: 2, pp 151-179

TL;DR: The concept of identity often becomes convoluted within the tradition of bhakti (devotion of god) as discussed by the authors, and the concept of "identity" often becomes complicated within the traditional tradition of Bhakti.

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Abstract: The concept of ‘identity’ often becomes convoluted within the tradition of bhakti (devotion of god). This article engages in a comparative study of two of Lord Krishna’s devotees, each from a diffe...

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Abstract: The 'Rajput' period in Indian history represents that interlude which evolved beliefs and practices that endowed a distinctive character to female honour - which linked the purity and honour of the clan itself with women's sexuality. The story of Meera Bai presents in a way the most flagrant violation of this Rajput notion of dishonour. This essay probes at the contradictions that Meera Bai embodies. Hers was a rebellion against conventional restrictive norms that sought to regulate and control women's lives, and Meera was condemned by feudal society for such acts of deviation, yet Meera still remains honoured and revered and till date survives in the cultural consciousness of the people.

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"The Transgendered Devotee: Ambiguit..." refers background in this paper

...Prince used the term to refer to individuals like herself whose personal identities she considered to fall somewhere on the spectrum between ‘transvestite’ and ‘transsexual’ (Stryker & Whittle, 2006, p. 4)....
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...Transgender phenomena have thus ‘become a topical focus in fields ranging from musicology to religious studies to digital media; a theme in visual, plastic and performative arts; and a matter of practical concern in such fields as family law’ (Stryker & Whittle, 2006, p. 3)....
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...…an imagined community encompassing transsexuals, drag queens, butches, hermaphrodites, cross-dressers, masculine women, effeminate men, sissies, tomboys, and anybody else willing to be interpolated by the term, who felt compelled to answer the call to mobilization’ (Stryker & Whittle, 2006, p. 4)....
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...…was against the anti-transsexual and anti-transgender moralism embedded in certain structures of society, for which she projected an alternative body of intellectual and creative work capable of aptly communicating to others the functioning of the ‘changing sex’ (Stryker & Whittle, 2006, p. 4)....
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...…for a wide range of phenomena that underscores the fact that ‘“gender” as it is lived, embodied, experienced, performed and encountered, is more complex and varied than can be accounted by the currently dominant binary sex/gender ideology of Eurocentric modernity’ (Stryker & Whittle, 2006, p. 3)....
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