Frances S Hasso, Associate Professor in Women's Studies, International Comparative Studies, and Sociology

Office Location:	208B East Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-5097
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• Ics 195.01, Comp appr global issues Synopsis

  Friedl bdg 107, MWF 01:30 PM-02:20 PM

  (also cross-listed as CULANTH 195.01, HISTORY 103.01, POLSCI 110.01, RELIGION 195.01, SOCIOL 195.01)

• Womenst 960s.01, Interdisciplinry debates (top) Synopsis

  Smith 271, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

Office Hours:

Fall 2011

Wed & Fri, 11:30-noon (usually East Duke Bldg.)
Mon & Wed, 2:30-4:00 p.m. (usually Bivins Bldg.)

Specialties:

Gender Studies
Transnational Studies

Research Interests:

My research has focused on the intersections between states, social movements, and individual subjectivities and identities, especially in the Arab world. My first book, Resistance, Repression, and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan, found and explained different social change strategies, and cultural and gender politics, in the Jordan and Occupied Territories branches of a Palestinian nationalist organization and its affiliated women’s organization. My current book, Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East, focuses on the rise of new sexual and marital subjectivities and practices among Sunni Muslims, especially in the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, and critically examines the way different social sectors in each society explain these changes. It also analyzes in some depth “legal governmentality” in relation to family life in both countries. My research has been generously funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the National Science Foundation, the American Sociological Association, the Palestinian American Research Center, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (Leiden), among others. I am active in the Middle East Studies Association of North America and the American Sociological Association. In the ASA, I helped co-found the Caucus on Transnational Approaches to Gender and Sexuality in 1999 and was recently (2008-2010) an elected member of the Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award Committee of the Sex and Gender Section.

Curriculum Vitae

1. F.S. Hasso. Consuming Desires: Family Crisis and the State in the Middle East.  Stanford University Press, 2011.  [abs]
2. F.S. Hasso. "Empowering Governmentalities Rather than Women: The Arab Human Development Report 2005 and Western Development Logics." International Journal of Middle East Studies 41:1 (February, February, 2009): 63-82.
3. F.S. Hasso. "'Culture Knowledge' and the Violence of Imperialism: Revisiting The Arab Mind." MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 7 (Spring, Spring, 2007): 24-40.  [abs]
4. F.S. Hasso. "Discursive & Political Deployments by/of the 2002 Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers/Martyrs." Feminist Review Issue 81, Special Issue on "Bodily Inter (November, November, 2005): 23-51.  [abs]
5. F.S. Hasso. Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan.  Syracuse University Press, 2005.  [abs]