The Women's Movement in Pakistan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-83860-708-1 (ISBN)
This book is a history of the modern women's movement in Pakistan. The research is based on documents from the Women's Action Forum archives, court judgments on relevant cases, as well as interviews with activists, lawyers and judges and analysis of newspapers and magazines. Ayesha Khan argues that the demand for a secular state and resistance to Islamization should not be misunderstood as Pakistani women sympathizing with a western agenda. Rather, their work is a crucial contribution to the evolution of the Pakistani state. The book outlines the discriminatory laws and policies that triggered domestic and international outcry, landmark cases of sexual violence that rallied women activists together and the important breakthroughs that enhanced women's rights. At a time when the women's movement in Pakistan is in danger of shrinking, this book highlights its historic significance and its continued relevance today.
Ayesha Khan is Senior Researcher at the Collective for Social Sciences Research in Karachi. She has been a journalist in international radio, local television and for newspapers and has also worked at various NGOs. She gained her BA in Philosophy at Yale University in 1987 and her MA in Area Studies at SOAS, University of London, in 1989. Her contributions have appeared in Feminism, Empowerment and Development, Thinking International Relations Differently and Interrogating Imperialism and in journals including Feminist Economics and the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Contours of an Islamic Pakistan
Chapter 2. Global Politics and Zia's Islamization
Chapter 3. The Women’s Movement: The First Phase
Chapter 4. Grappling with the Damage Done
Chapter 5. Activism Changes Form
Chapter 6. Maulanas at the Helm
Chapter 7. Swat and the Taliban Ascendancy
Chapter 8. Sexual Violence and the New Activists
Chapter 9. Women in Politics and the Promise of Democracy
Chapter 10. The Long View
Bibliography
WAF Interviews
Erscheinungsdatum | 16.04.2019 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 485 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 1-83860-708-0 / 1838607080 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-83860-708-1 / 9781838607081 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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