Saba Abbas

Fall 2015: WGST 3806A – Girlhoods

Winter 2016:

WGST 2803 – Body Matter: Politics of Bodies;

WGST 4803A – Globalized Bodies;

WGST 4812A – Selected Topics: Transnational Feminism

 Office hours:  Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m

Saba Abbas holds a Ph.D. in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies from York University. Her research interests centre on veiling and sexualities in Islam, with a particular focus on the embodiment of Muslim femininity in the Middle East. Parts of her graduate research at York University have been recently published in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. This research examines the fashionable veiling in Jordan and unpacks its particularity and implications as an articulation of femininity and desire.

Her other research interests include theories of the body and embodiment; women and political Islam; transnational feminisms; gender, citizenship and belonging; feminist methodologies; and postcolonial theory.

Saba has worked at the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of Jordan and at York University before joining the Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender and Studies at Carleton University.