Fauzia Husain
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686355 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fauzia Husain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fauzia |
| FAMILY NAME | Husain |
| SIGNATURE | HUSAIN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1754-5579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap
Although feminist theorizing on Muslim women's agency has come a long way, recent models reflect a one‐dimensional conception of agency that reinvigorates problematic binaries and undermines feminist politics. To address these limitations, the author focuses on the interpersonal arena where agency involves not only doing but also the cultivation and consolidation of relationships. Ethnographic data reveal three key findings: (1) Agency is multidi…
Dead Goat on the runway. Disruptive fusion, affective citizenship and gender
Making the Right Choice
Halal Dating, Purdah, and Postfeminism
Drawing on forty interviews, this article employs the framework of sexual projects to investigate how middle-class Muslim women navigate the contradictory requirements of sex and agency at the intersection of postfeminism and purdah in Karachi, Pakistan. While existing accounts of embedded agency risk reinscribing dualisms between Islam and the West, the three-pronged sexual projects approach stresses the relational and temporal dimensions of act…
Halal Dating, Purdah, and Postfeminism
Drawing on forty interviews, this article employs the framework of sexual projects to investigate how middle-class Muslim women navigate the contradictory requirements of sex and agency at the intersection of postfeminism and purdah in Karachi, Pakistan. While existing accounts of embedded agency risk reinscribing dualisms between Islam and the West, the three-pronged sexual projects approach stresses the relational and temporal dimensions of act…
Making the Right Choice
Dead Goat on the runway. Disruptive fusion, affective citizenship and gender
Halal Dating, Purdah, and Postfeminism
Drawing on forty interviews, this article employs the framework of sexual projects to investigate how middle-class Muslim women navigate the contradictory requirements of sex and agency at the intersection of postfeminism and purdah in Karachi, Pakistan. While existing accounts of embedded agency risk reinscribing dualisms between Islam and the West, the three-pronged sexual projects approach stresses the relational and temporal dimensions of act…
Dead Goat on the runway. Disruptive fusion, affective citizenship and gender
Making the Right Choice
Muslim women's agency; getting past the binary trap
Although feminist theorizing on Muslim women's agency has come a long way, recent models reflect a one‐dimensional conception of agency that reinvigorates problematic binaries and undermines feminist politics. To address these limitations, the author focuses on the interpersonal arena where agency involves not only doing but also the cultivation and consolidation of relationships. Ethnographic data reveal three key findings: (1) Agency is multidi…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works)