Sara Shroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1432027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Shroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Shroff |
| SIGNATURE | SHROFF S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender and Sexuality Studies and Political Science Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6990-2115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lesbian in/from South Asia: Erotic and political geographies
This special issue emerged from a two-pronged question: what it means to be lesbian in/from South Asia and what it means to be so in the contemporary moment. The contemporary is marked by both enduring and emergent forms of precarities, changing strategies of survival, intensified digitalization and transformations in global queer politics. Seeking to open up the ideas of "lesbian" and "South Asia" both individually and in relation to each other,…
Fashioning Sufi: Body Politics of Androgynous Sacred Aesthetics
Revered as the 'Queen of Qawwali' and 'Queen of Sufi music', sixty-seven-year-old Abida Parveen is a spiritual phenomenon who transcends gender while performing. She is known for her signature fashion style of buttoned-up masculine-cut kurta (tunic) with matching shalwar (loose trousers) and an ajrak (block-printed) shawl. Her aesthetic circulates within transnational and national fashion media and popular cultural spaces through descriptors such…
Between mother and daughter: Brown erotics and sacred notes
In this short essay, I offer an alternative ontology and epistemology of the term "lesbian" vis-à-vis my relationship with my brown Pakistani mother. I bring into this reading a number of variables ranging from the geographic, historical, biopolitical, and economic to the embodied, affective, esthetic, and immaterial. In recounting formative moments of my childhood - Quranic pedagogy alongside classical voice, singing and dance lessons - I re-rea…
Bold Women, Bad Assets: Honour, Property and Techno-Promiscuities
In June 2016, Qandeel Baloch, a 26-year-old Pakistani social media star, was murdered. Her death sparked both public outrage and a policy debate around 'honour killing', digital rights and sex-positive sexuality across Pakistan and its diasporas. Qandeel challenged what constitutes a proper Pakistani woman, an authentic Baloch and a respectable digital citizen. As a national sex symbol, she failed at the gendered workings of respectable heterosex…
Pious capital: Fashionable Femininity and the Predicament of Financial Freedom
I take up the figure of the new Pakistani working woman as constructed in the advertising campaign of the fashion brand Working Woman to think about transnational frames of class, womanhood, piety, femininity, and empowerment. I introduce pious capital as a concept that illuminates how this figure embodies the intersections of borders where borders mean the binaries that this figure appears to transcend: she is the best of the East and worthy of …
Fashioning Sufi: Body Politics of Androgynous Sacred Aesthetics
Revered as the 'Queen of Qawwali' and 'Queen of Sufi music', sixty-seven-year-old Abida Parveen is a spiritual phenomenon who transcends gender while performing. She is known for her signature fashion style of buttoned-up masculine-cut kurta (tunic) with matching shalwar (loose trousers) and an ajrak (block-printed) shawl. Her aesthetic circulates within transnational and national fashion media and popular cultural spaces through descriptors such…
Bold Women, Bad Assets: Honour, Property and Techno-Promiscuities
In June 2016, Qandeel Baloch, a 26-year-old Pakistani social media star, was murdered. Her death sparked both public outrage and a policy debate around 'honour killing', digital rights and sex-positive sexuality across Pakistan and its diasporas. Qandeel challenged what constitutes a proper Pakistani woman, an authentic Baloch and a respectable digital citizen. As a national sex symbol, she failed at the gendered workings of respectable heterosex…
Pious capital: Fashionable Femininity and the Predicament of Financial Freedom
I take up the figure of the new Pakistani working woman as constructed in the advertising campaign of the fashion brand Working Woman to think about transnational frames of class, womanhood, piety, femininity, and empowerment. I introduce pious capital as a concept that illuminates how this figure embodies the intersections of borders where borders mean the binaries that this figure appears to transcend: she is the best of the East and worthy of …
Pious capital: Fashionable Femininity and the Predicament of Financial Freedom
I take up the figure of the new Pakistani working woman as constructed in the advertising campaign of the fashion brand Working Woman to think about transnational frames of class, womanhood, piety, femininity, and empowerment. I introduce pious capital as a concept that illuminates how this figure embodies the intersections of borders where borders mean the binaries that this figure appears to transcend: she is the best of the East and worthy of …
Between mother and daughter: Brown erotics and sacred notes
In this short essay, I offer an alternative ontology and epistemology of the term "lesbian" vis-à-vis my relationship with my brown Pakistani mother. I bring into this reading a number of variables ranging from the geographic, historical, biopolitical, and economic to the embodied, affective, esthetic, and immaterial. In recounting formative moments of my childhood - Quranic pedagogy alongside classical voice, singing and dance lessons - I re-rea…
Bold Women, Bad Assets: Honour, Property and Techno-Promiscuities
In June 2016, Qandeel Baloch, a 26-year-old Pakistani social media star, was murdered. Her death sparked both public outrage and a policy debate around 'honour killing', digital rights and sex-positive sexuality across Pakistan and its diasporas. Qandeel challenged what constitutes a proper Pakistani woman, an authentic Baloch and a respectable digital citizen. As a national sex symbol, she failed at the gendered workings of respectable heterosex…
Fashioning Sufi: Body Politics of Androgynous Sacred Aesthetics
Revered as the 'Queen of Qawwali' and 'Queen of Sufi music', sixty-seven-year-old Abida Parveen is a spiritual phenomenon who transcends gender while performing. She is known for her signature fashion style of buttoned-up masculine-cut kurta (tunic) with matching shalwar (loose trousers) and an ajrak (block-printed) shawl. Her aesthetic circulates within transnational and national fashion media and popular cultural spaces through descriptors such…
Lesbian in/from South Asia: Erotic and political geographies
This special issue emerged from a two-pronged question: what it means to be lesbian in/from South Asia and what it means to be so in the contemporary moment. The contemporary is marked by both enduring and emergent forms of precarities, changing strategies of survival, intensified digitalization and transformations in global queer politics. Seeking to open up the ideas of "lesbian" and "South Asia" both individually and in relation to each other,…
Gender Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Femininity (2 works)