Dr. Amina Jamal

Amina Jamal teaches and publishes in the areas of women, Islam and modernity, transnational and postcolonial feminism, violence against women and Muslim women’s struggles in Pakistan and Canada. She is the author of Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan: Vanguard of a New Modernity? Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2013. Some of her recent publications include : “The Entanglement of Secularism and Feminism in Pakistan.” Transnational Feminist Approaches to Anti-Muslim Racism , Special Issue of Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism vol. 20.2, 2021.co-edited by Zeynep Korkman and Sherene Razack;  “Introduction To Special Issue: assimilation, Interrupted: Transforming Discourses Of Culture- And Honour-Based Violence In Canada” by Mandeep Kaur Mucina and Amina Jamal, In International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 03/2021, Volume 12, Issue 1, Mandeep K. Mucina & Amina Jamal, Co-editors. “Piety, Transgression and the Feminist Debate on Muslim Women: Transnationalizing the Victim-Subject of Honor-Related violence.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Vol. 41, No. 1 (Autumn 2015), pp. 55-79. 

She is currently completing a co-edited collection "Emerging South Asian Feminisms: Critical Canadian Perspectives, Edited by Amina Jamal, Jane Ku, and Maryam Khan. This manuscript has emerged from a SSHRC-funded project Connections Grant “Critical Diasporic South AsianFeminisms Symposium" 2020-2023 in which she was Principal Investigator.