Selected Publications

Books

Azim, F. (2013). Islam, culture and women in Asia: Complex terrains. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315868479

Azim, F., & Sultan, M. (Eds.). (2010). Mapping women’s empowerment: Experiences from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Dhaka, Bangladesh: BRAC Development Institute; University Press Limited.

Book Chapters

Azim, F. (2016). Secularism and the women’s movement in Bangladesh. In M. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.

Azim, F. (2013). Introduction: Islam, culture and women. In F. Azim (Ed.), Islam, culture and women in Asia: Complex terrains. London: Routledge.

Azim, F., & Bengal, P. H. (2014). Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal. In L. Fernandes (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315848501.ch2

Azim, F. (2012). Keeping sexuality on the agenda: The sex workers’ movement in Bangladesh. In A. Loomba & R. A. Lukose (Eds.), South asian feminisms (pp. 267–284). North Carolina, United States: Duke University Press. Retrieved from https://www.dukeupress.edu/south-asian-feminisms

Azim, F. (2000). Notes towards reading the new literatures in nineteenth century bengal. In S. Nasta (Ed.), Reading the `new’ literatures in a post-colonial era. Cambridge: D.S.Brewer.

Azim, F. (1994). Freedom and slavery: Looking at Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko. In F. Azim & N. Zaman (Eds.), Infinite variety : women in society and literature (pp. 44–54). Dhaka, Bangladesh: University Press Limited.

Azim, F. (1991). Building the nation: Architecture in Bangladesh. In R. Grover (Ed.), Architecture of SAARC nations (pp. 10–31). New Delhi: Media Transasia (I) Pvt. Ltd.

Journals

Azim, F., & Hasan, P. (2014). Language, literature, education and community: The Bengali Muslim woman in the early twentieth century. Women’s Studies International Forum, 45, 105–111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2013.10.013

Azim, F. (2014). Speaking the unspeakable or limits of representability. India International Centre Quarterly, 41(3/4), 249–257. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/24390793

Azim, F. (2016). Secularism and the women’s movement in Bangladesh. In M. Mukhopadhyay (Ed.), Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.

Azim, F. (2010). Getting to know you, or the formation of inter-Asian identities. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 11(2), 165–173. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649371003633404

Azim, F., Menon, N., & Siddiqi, D. M. (2009). Negotiating new terrains: South Asian feminisms. Feminist Review, 91(1), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.2008.54

Rahim, S. A., & Azim, F. (2009). Women on the move. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 10(3), 460–470. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649370902949481

Azim, F. (2005). Feminist struggles in Bangladesh. Feminist Review, (80), 194–197. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.fr.9400217

Azim, F. (1996). Review of Mircea Eliade, Bengal Nights:A novel and maitreyi devi, it does not die: A romance. The Journal of Asian Studies, 55(4), 1035–1037.

Azim, F. (1993). Truth is double: Ishwar Chandra Bidyasagar and planning for a Bengali education. Journal of Social Studies, 67, 1–19.

Azim, F. (n.d.). Whose English is it anyway: Problems of national identity and language. The Cambridge Review, 51–55.

Newspaper/Magazine Articles

Azim, F. (2015, March). Women are still the second sex. Retrieved from http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/women-are-still-the-second-sex-firdou...

Dr. Azim taught two courses entitled Feminist Theories and a senior course entitled Post-colonial feminisms at Umea Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS) at the University of Umea, Sweden from the 2^nd of September to the 23^rd of September 2015.

• On 25^th March 2016, Professor Firdous Azim presented her paper titled Birangona or Muktijoddha: The Politics of Naming  in the plenary session titled “Traumas of Genocide and Mass Violence” at the three day International Conference on Genocide and Mass Violence: Theories, Traumas, Trials and Testimonies held from 24^th March to 26^th March 2016 at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka.
• Professor Firdous Azim was one of the discussants at the launch of the book titled “University of Dhaka-Making, Unmaking, Remaking” edited by Imtiaz Ahmed and Iftekhar Iqbal and published by Prothoma, on 1^st February 2016 at the Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban, University of Dhaka.

• On 19^th October 2015, Professor Firdous Azim presented her paper titled “English Language in the Globalised Market Place” in the session titled “‘Minding your language’ - English language skills in a globalised world”  at the symposium on Access Points & Progression Pathways – Routes to success in education, employment & skills  organized by the British Council, Bangladesh.

•  Professor Azim delivered inaugural lecture for a five day workshop for journalists on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) on 23^rd October 2015. The workshop was organized by REDOrange for their project “Image: Initiatives for Married Adolescent Girls’ Empowerment” that aims at informing Bangladesh’s married adolescent girls about their rights.

• Dr. Azim gave a public lecture on “Feminism in Bangladesh” at Umea Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS) at the University of Umea, Sweden in September 2015.

• Fazlur Rahman Gold Medal
• Commonwealth Scholar and Fellow
• Fulbright Fellow