and discipline veiled women citizens. These women， lady health workers， historic， confront a stigma matrix: a complex of local and global， 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， address。

she finds， and airline attendants。

but is it also beneficial for women? In The Stigma Matrix Fauzia Husain draws on the experiences of policewomen， 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， and its global allies。

all frontline workers who help the Pakistani state， 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，imToken， and are entangled with elite projects of hegemony. ， surveil，。