Globalization in Everyday Life
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Globalization in Everyday Life

Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women

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Globalization in Everyday Life

Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women

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As 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 The Stigma Matrix 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.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781503636064
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Global Constituents of Sexualized Stigmas in Pakistan
  9. 2. The Meso Level of the Stigma Matrix: The Contexts of Stigma in Frontline Work
  10. 3. Veiled Delicacy: Agentic Responses to Stigma in the Pakistani Police Force
  11. 4. Sacred Conduits: Stigma and the Agency of Health Workers
  12. 5. Mavens of Mobility: How Airline Women Navigate Stigma
  13. 6. Spectacular Agency: Stunning Dramas of Recruitment
  14. Conclusion: Moving Forward with the Stigma Matrix
  15. Appendix
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover