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As a Senior Research Fellow, my scholarship examines the intersectional dynamics shaping women’s experiences and identity construction in India, emphasising political engagement, religious interpretations, and social practices, within the developmental contexts. I investigate how gender-power relations in private spheres influence public engagements across diverse communities, exploring how women navigate their identities and agency within intersectional sociopolitical structures.

Employing post-colonial grounded ethnography in select Rajasthani constituencies, I conduct qualitative assessments of private and public sphere factors to analyze women’s agency and institutional engagement. This approach facilitates a nuanced exploration of lived experiences, transcending cultural determinism, situational totalitarianism and testifying identity theories. My work contributes to gendered representational deprivation and marginalization at national and regional levels. By analyzing multi-level institutional variations, I elucidate the constructive discursive gendered institutionalism in validating social relations theory which in turn identifies the factors shaping women’s accessibility, presence, and influence in the public sphere.

Recent Publications

    2024

• Review Article ‘ Of Captivity and Resistance: Women Political Prisoners in Postcolonial India‘ The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970-4175, Vol 48, No.8, August 2024
• Review Article ‘Exploring Sexual Violence across Time and Place’ ‘Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence’ The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970-4175, Vol 48, No.3, February 2024
• Review Article ‘Hills of Paradise: Power, Powerlessness and the Female Body’ Journal: The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970- 4175, accepted for publication

    2023

• Book Review ‘The Wingless Flight And Others’ Edited by Geeta Menon; Journal: The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970- 4175, Vol 47, No 11, November 2023

    2022

• Research Paper titled ‘Intersectionality and Impact of COVID-19: Politics of the Private Sphere and Gender-based Violence’; The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies and, Development, ISSN 2429-2133, Vol 7, Issue 1 (2022), by Arcadia University, and, American Graduate School in Paris, FRANCE

     Prior to 2022

• Critical Review of ‘Gendering Caste: Through a feminist lens’, Journal of International Women’s Studies, ISSN 1539-8706, Vol. 21, Issue 6, August 2020; by Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Book review Article “Daily Demons ‘the Other Half” faces”, ’The Silence And the Storm: Narratives of Violence Against Women in INdia” ISSN 0970-4175, Vol XIVIV, No.2-3, Feb 2020; Aleph Book Company, New Delhi
• Book Review article ‘Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles**’,** Asian Women, ISSN 1225-925X, Online ISSN 2586-5714, June 2020, Vol 6; by Research Institute of Asian Women, Seoul, R.O.K
• Book Review Article ‘Celebrating A Syncretic Culture’ An Analysis of the Book The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN 0970-4175, Vol XLIV, No.2-3, Feb- March 2020
• Review Article ‘Siyasi Muslims’, Social Action, ISSN 0037-7627, April-June 2020, VOL70, NO 2; Indian Social Institute, New Delhi
• Review Article ISSN 0970-4175, Vol XLV, No.6, June 2021; Context Publications, New Delhi
• Research Paper titled ‘‘Geographical Information System: Unearthing the Hidden’ in the Journal Khoj: An International Peer Reviewed Journal of Geography ISSN No. 2350- 1359, Vol 1 2013-2014
• Book review Article ‘The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku by Satyajit Ray’ ; The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970- 4175, VolXLIII, No.11, November 2019
• Book review Article in ‘Our Hindu Rashtra: What it is. How we got here The Book Review, ISSN 0970-4175, Vol XLV, No.4, April 2021; Westland Publications, New Delhi, 2020
• Book review Article ‘Things Lost and Found in History’; in The Book Review Literary Trust, ISSN0970-4175, Vol XLIII, No.11, November 2019
• Fieldwork report article titled ‘Jhalawar: Land of Peaceful Coexistence’ in Irshaad: A Sustainability Handbook, 2015, Incredible India Project, 5waraj & Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India
• Analysis Article ‘Media in 2019: Dissenters versus the banal agitprop in Indian Politics’ Counter-Currents Organisation https://countercurrents.org/2019/11/media-in-2019-dissenters-versus-the-banal-agitprop-in-indian-politics/
• Analysis Article ‘Is the movie Section-375, a nail in pulverising the women’s movement?‘ Counter-Currents Organisation [https://countercurrents.org/2019/09/is-the-movie-section-375-is-a-nail-in-pulverizing-the-womens-movement;](https://countercurrents.org/2019/09/is-the-movie-section-375-is-a-nail-in-pulverizing-the-womens-movement)

Media Coverage

Social Media

Dr. Sabah Hussain

Country Focus

India

Expertise by Geography

Asia, India, South Asia

Expertise by Chronology

19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

Capitalism, Economic History, Gender, Government, Law, Politics, Public History, Sexuality, Sexual Violence, Women