Fauzia Husain shows how cultural stigma is shaped。

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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， 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， confront a stigma matrix: a complex of local and global， and are entangled with elite projects of hegemony. About the author Fauzia Husain is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens University. Her work has been published in Signs and Poetics. "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， and Gender Sociology / Global Issues， while also providing a novel and multifaceted account of women's agency. The Stigma Matrix is mandatory reading for anyone interested in gender and work in global contexts." —Rachel Rinaldo， 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， and its global allies， Author of Patchwork Leviathan "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， Class，imToken下载， 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." —Erin McDonnell， all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state， surveil， and airline attendants，。