Khanum Shaikh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khanum Shaikh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khanum |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaikh |
| SIGNATURE | SHAIKH K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Why ‘Anti-Sharia’ Protestors in Los Angeles are Concerned about Muslim Women
On a sunny Los Angeles afternoon in June of 2017, I was driving to the airport to pick up my cousin who was coming to visit me from Canada for the very first time. As I approached the international terminal I heard loud music interspersed with bursts of chanting and cheering – something that sounded like a protest. Having recently been hit by Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban, Los Angelinos of many races and faiths had taken defiantly to the streets agai…
Intimate Critique
Intimate Critique: Toward a Feminism from Within Khanum Shaikh (bio) khala (maternal aunt in urdu) always warned us that patriarchy would permeate our lives whether or not we consented to it. The younger generation of girls in my family would often engage in playful but oppositional banter with her, arguing that we did not want to spend our lives serving our husbands and their families, and she would respond using expletives to tell us how “our m…
The Contours of Speaking Out
This article discusses the vexed relationship between women's activism, state security, and feminist empowerment by focusing on the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) initiative, a program that seeks to build partnerships between government agencies and Muslim communities to prevent homegrown terrorism. From its inception, CVE has been controversial among Muslim and non-Muslim leaders within Southern California's…
Gender, Vulnerability, and the Optics of Violence
Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International
The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation and praxis in a way that challenges that of the male ulema (religious scholars) who have historically exercised a monopoly over the production and dissemination of religious kn…
Contesting Justice
Book Review| July 01 2009 Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law and Society by Ahmed E. Souaiaia Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law and Society, Souaiaia, Ahmed E.. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 195. ISBN 978-0-7914-7397-9. Khanum Shaikh Khanum Shaikh University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 104–106. https:/…
The Contours of Speaking Out
This article discusses the vexed relationship between women's activism, state security, and feminist empowerment by focusing on the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) initiative, a program that seeks to build partnerships between government agencies and Muslim communities to prevent homegrown terrorism. From its inception, CVE has been controversial among Muslim and non-Muslim leaders within Southern California's…
Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International
The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation and praxis in a way that challenges that of the male ulema (religious scholars) who have historically exercised a monopoly over the production and dissemination of religious kn…
Contesting Justice
Book Review| July 01 2009 Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law and Society by Ahmed E. Souaiaia Contesting Justice: Women, Islam, Law and Society, Souaiaia, Ahmed E.. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. xiv, 195. ISBN 978-0-7914-7397-9. Khanum Shaikh Khanum Shaikh University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2009) 5 (2): 104–106. https:/…
Gender, Religious Agency, and the Subject of Al-Huda International
The focus of this paper is Al-Huda International, a Pakistan-based Sunni Muslim women's organization working to bring about social reform through women's religious education. Created and led by urban, upper-class Pakistani women, Al-Huda approaches religious interpretation and praxis in a way that challenges that of the male ulema (religious scholars) who have historically exercised a monopoly over the production and dissemination of religious kn…
Gender, Vulnerability, and the Optics of Violence
The Contours of Speaking Out
This article discusses the vexed relationship between women's activism, state security, and feminist empowerment by focusing on the Department of Homeland Security's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) initiative, a program that seeks to build partnerships between government agencies and Muslim communities to prevent homegrown terrorism. From its inception, CVE has been controversial among Muslim and non-Muslim leaders within Southern California's…
Why ‘Anti-Sharia’ Protestors in Los Angeles are Concerned about Muslim Women
On a sunny Los Angeles afternoon in June of 2017, I was driving to the airport to pick up my cousin who was coming to visit me from Canada for the very first time. As I approached the international terminal I heard loud music interspersed with bursts of chanting and cheering – something that sounded like a protest. Having recently been hit by Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban, Los Angelinos of many races and faiths had taken defiantly to the streets agai…
Intimate Critique
Intimate Critique: Toward a Feminism from Within Khanum Shaikh (bio) khala (maternal aunt in urdu) always warned us that patriarchy would permeate our lives whether or not we consented to it. The younger generation of girls in my family would often engage in playful but oppositional banter with her, arguing that we did not want to spend our lives serving our husbands and their families, and she would respond using expletives to tell us how “our m…
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food
What Hungers Call Us Home? Engaging Autotheory Through Food Azza Basarudin (bio), Tina Beyene (bio), Elora Halim Chowdhury (bio), Sharmila Lodhia (bio), Catherine Z. Sameh (bio), and Khanum Shaikh (bio) introduction For decades, feminists have engaged food as an arena for both the reproduction of, and resistance to, patriarchal norms.1 While stories of the everyday food habits and practices may seem banal, feminist food studies scholars have conv…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)