Jamaat-e-Islami women in Pakistan : vanguard of a new modernity? / Amina Jamal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamal, Amina.

Series:

Gender and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Political activity--Pakistan.

Muslim women.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Feminism.

Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān.

Muslim women--Political activity.

Pakistan.

Physical Description:

xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: transnational identities and religious-political modernities

Newly emerging subjects: feminism, Islamic feminism, and post-Islamic feminism

The spaces of the public-religious

Politics of morality

Vanguard of a new modernity?: cultural politics in a postcolonial state

Gender and development and its discontents: Jamaat women and the "woman question" in Pakistan

To forbid evil and enjoin virtue: creating moral citizens

Conclusion: gendered selves, modernist trajectories, and community building.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815633273

0815633270

OCLC:

855779225