ISBN: 9781156640890

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Galli, Hijra, Transgender People in Singapore, Kathoey, Bugis Street, Köçek, Mukhannathun, Be Like Others, Bacchá, Futanari, Bahuchara Mata, Transsexuality in Iran, Muxe, Kaúxuma Núpika, Transgender in China, Sworn Virgin, Fa'afafine, Miss Galaxy Pageant, Cogender, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Galli, Hijra, Transgender People in Singapore, Kathoey, Bugis Street, Köçek, Mukhannathun, Be Like Others, Bacchá, Futanari, Bahuchara Mata, Transsexuality in Iran, Muxe, Kaúxuma Núpika, Transgender in China, Sworn Virgin, Fa'afafine, Miss Galaxy Pageant, Cogender, Bissu, Shabnam Mausi, Fakaleiti, Taiwan Tg Butterfly Garden, Khanith, Mak Nyah, Pak Nyah, Calabai, Ladyboys, TakatÄ?pui, Calalai, Mahu. Excerpt: In the settled oasis region of Central Asia (Turkestan ), entertainers known as bacchá (a Turkic term borrowed from Persian bacche "child, young man, calf") were once common, and constituted the commercial and transgender side of the local pederastic tradition known as bacchabozlik.A bacchá, typically an adolescent of twelve to sixteen, was a performer practiced in erotic songs and suggestive dancing. He wore resplendent attire and makeup, has been considered by some as cross-dressing or actual transgender expression, but contested by others such as historian and anthropologist Anthony Shay as being more akin to situational homosexuality. The bacchá was appreciated esthetically for his androgynous beauty, but was also available as a sex worker. The boys were drawn from the ranks of the underclasses, as the profession was as much despised as it was admired. In some Southwest Asian provinces they were often Christians and Jews, while in Central Asia and Afghanistan they were both Muslims and Jews. The bacchás were trained from childhood and carried on their trade until their beard began to grow. Once they matured out of the trade, some were set up by their patrons in business as merchants, but most boys were left to their own, often meager, resources. Though after the Russian conquest the ethnic Books, , Transgender-In-Non-Western-Cultures~~Books-Llc, 999999999, Transgender In Non-Western Cultures, Books Llc, 115664089X, General Books LLC, , , , , General Books LLC<

2011, ISBN: 115664089X

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2011, ISBN: 115664089X

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2011, ISBN: 115664089X

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