{"product_id":"the-stigma-matrix-gender-globalization-and-the-agency-of-pakistans-frontline-women-hardback-9781503632370","title":"The Stigma Matrix; Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women (Hardback) 9781503632370","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFauzia Husain (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503632370\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e306 pages, 4 tables, 2 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.512 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"This is an impressive, gorgeously written book that tackles a question of vital importance. Fauzia Husain situates stigma as a force that reaches from the historical colonial past, across decades of neoliberal global forces, and renders its micro-contextual consequences starkly in the intimate daily lives of women tasked with enacting the will of the state under incredibly difficult conditions.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Erin McDonnell, Author of \u003ci\u003ePatchwork Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e \"This remarkable and richly detailed ethnography explores how frontline women workers in Pakistan navigate the colliding norms of purdah and neoliberal economic policies. With a keen analytical eye, Fauzia Husain shows how cultural stigma is shaped, while also providing a novel and multifaceted account of women's agency. \u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e is mandatory reading for anyone interested in gender and work in global contexts.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Rachel Rinaldo, Author of \u003ci\u003eMobilizing Piety\u003c\/i\u003e \"[\u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e] is well written and will be accessible even to those who know little about Pakistan or Islam. Recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —G. M. Farr, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e is written in an accessible manner and provides a compelling mix of ethnographic narratives and complex theoretical work. Husain provides a contemporary perspective on canonical topics such as stigma and agency and offers portable frameworks that scholars may apply in other contexts.\"\u003cbr\u003e  —Sidra Kamran, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Development Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \"An important contribution to the scholarship on gender, neoliberalism, and the public space, \u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulously crafted book that explores the experiences of the 'so-called dirty women' in Pakistan's public service.... The book convincingly attends to how political economic structures and colonial histories generate stigma for women and work in particular globalized contexts.\"—Maria Rashid, \u003ci\u003eThe Developing Economies\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegantly written and critical contribution to the growing scholarly literature on gender in Pakistan. It beautifully explicates how women navigate stigma while maintaining their dignity and integrity as frontline public workers in a deeply patriarchal context.\"—Ayesha Khan, \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. They are pressed into wage work by a privatizing and unstable job market. Likewise, they are pulled into public roles by gender mainstreaming policies that developing states must sign on to in order to receive transnational aid. Their inclusion into the political economy is very beneficial for society, but is it also beneficial for women? In \u003ci\u003eThe Stigma Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e Fauzia Husain draws on the experiences of policewomen, lady health workers, and airline attendants, all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state, and its global allies, address, surveil, and discipline veiled women citizens. These women, she finds, confront a stigma matrix: a complex of local and global, historic, and contemporary factors that work together to complicate women's integration into public life. The experiences of the three groups Husain examines reveal that inclusion requires more than quotas or special seats. This book advances critical feminist and sociological frameworks on stigma and agency showing that both concepts are made up of multiple layers of meaning, and are entangled with elite projects of hegemony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e  1. THE GLOBAL CONSTITUENTS OF SEXUALIZED STIGMAS IN PAKISTAN\u003cbr\u003e  2. THE MESO LEVEL OF THE STIGMA MATRIX: THE CONTEXTS OF STIGMA IN FRONTLINE WORK\u003cbr\u003e  3. VEILED DELICACY: AGENTIC RESPONSES TO STIGMA IN THE PAKISTANI POLICE FORCE\u003cbr\u003e  4. SACRED CONDUITS: STIGMA AND THE AGENCY OF HEALTH WORKERS\u003cbr\u003e  5. MAVENS OF MOBILITY: HOW AIRLINE WOMEN NAVIGATE STIGMA\u003cbr\u003e  6. SPECTACULAR AGENCY: STUNNING DRAMAS OF RECRUITMENT\u003cbr\u003e  CONCLUSION: MOVING FORWARD WITH THE STIGMA MATRIX\u003cbr\u003e  Appendix\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610680062232,"sku":"9781503632370","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-stigma-matrix-gender-globalization-and-the-agency-of-pakistans-frontline-women-hardback-9781503632370","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}