The Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan's Frontline Women

As developing states adopt neoliberal policies, more and more working-class women find themselves pulled into the public sphere. 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.

• | Author: Fauzia Husain
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 30, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781503636057
• | ISBN-10: 1503636054