Article ID: CBB034703548

Histories of aging and gender variability: Old age in the nineteenth-century ‘Hijra’/‘Eunuch’ archive (2024)

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Queer, trans and gender histories have destabilised concepts of childhood and adolescence and thereby shown how age-stratification and normative notions of time are produced through gender and sexual normativity. However, scholars can productively consider how gender variability produces, negotiates or unravels hegemonic concepts of old age. This article analyses narratives about old age and gender variability from late nineteenth-century north India. While elderly, gender non-conforming people were often constructed as soon-to-die, this article highlights more capacious meanings of old age.

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Authors & Contributors
Susanne Schmidt
Gorsky, Martin
Guntupalli, Aravinda
Harris, Bernard
Hinde, Andrew
Jones, Geoffrey
Journals
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Gender and History
Health and History
Social History of Medicine
History of Science in South Asia
Business History Review
Publishers
MIT Press
Purdue University (Lafayette, Indiana)
Fordham University Press
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Aging
Gender
Feminism
Women
Popular culture
Social sciences
People
Zangwill, Israel
Sheehy, Gail
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
Medieval
Places
India
Great Britain
Australia
United States
Bengal (India)
France
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