Gender, Sexual/Other Identities In The Eastern Himalaya – Ed. Mona Chettri With Ktien Hima & Nikita Rai

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Introduction: Experiencing, Expressing and Performing 1 Gender/Sexual and Other Identities in the eastern Himalaya
Mona Chettri, Ktien Hima, Nikita Rai

1. Queer Tales from the Hills: Reading Two Inaugural Texts from the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya
   Anil Pradhan

2. Migrant Women Labourers at the borders: The vulnerabilities of seasonal trans-national women labourers in Darjeeling
   Yojak Tamang

3. Being Plantation Women in the eastern Himalaya: Experiences from Darjeeling and Sikkim
   Babika Khawas

4. The Fate That Comes with Being Born a ‘Cheli Beti’
   Rinzing Ongmu Sherpa

5. The ‘Other’ Desires: Exploring Intimate Lives and Sexuality of Disabled and Sorceress Women in Nepali Cinema
   Jenisha Singh

6. ‘For Ladies Only’: Neighbourhood Beauty Parlours as Spaces of Desire and Resistance
   Ranu Kunwar

7. Intersection of Masculinity and Ethnicity: The Social Construction of Nepali Men in IB Rai’s Fiction in Translation
   Dhirendra Kumar Shah

8. Make-Up and the Ethno-Queer Self: Indigeneity and Identity in the eastern Himalaya
   Parjanya Sen

9. ‘Inharu Jastai’: Gender Non-Performativity in Anglo-Indian Schools
   Nirvan Pradhan