Interpreting Islam, modernity, and women's rights in Pakistan / Anita M. Weiss.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Weiss, Anita M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women--Pakistan--Social conditions.
• Women.
• Muslim women.
• Social conditions.
• Pakistan.
• Muslim women--Pakistan--Social conditions.
• Women's rights--Pakistan.
• Women's rights.
• Women's rights--Religious aspects--Islam.
• Women (Islamic law)--Pakistan.
• Women (Islamic law).
• Muslim women--Social conditions.
• Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 193 pages : map ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

In Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women's rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan's construction of an understanding of what constitutes women's rights, moves on to address traditional views and contemporary popular opinion on women's rights, and then focuses on three very different groups' perceptions of women's rights: progressive women's organizations as represented by the Aurat Foundation and Shirkat Gah; orthodox Islamist views as represented by the Jama'at-i-Islami, the MMA government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2002-2008) and al-Huda; and the Swat Taliban. Author Anita M. Weiss analyzes the resultant "culture wars" that are visibly ripping the country apart, as groups talk past one another-each confidant that it is the proprietor of culture and interpreters of religion while others are misrepresenting it. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Introduction: Women's Rights and Islamic Concerns with Ijtihad over those Rights 1
• Pakistan as a Microcosm of Both Global Issues 12
• Organization of this Book 17
• Acknowledgments 19
• 2 Legal Reforms and State Policies Affecting Women's Rights 21
• Legal Reforms and Women's Rights 21
• Implementation of CEDAW, UN Responses, and Related Actions 47
• 3 Mainstream and Popular Perceptions of Women's Rights in Pakistan 55
• Traditional Views on Women's Rights in Pakistan 56
• Contemporary Nationwide Public Opinions on Women's Rights 62
• 4 Progressive Women's NGOs' Interpretations of Women's Rights 75
• Shirkat Gah and the Aurat Foundation: The Organizations and their Visions 78
• Pushing Women's Rights Further; Additional Issues of Concern to Women's Rights NGOs 93
• 5 Orthodox Islamist Interpretations of Women's Rights 101
• The Jama'at-i-Islami's Vision on Women's Rights 102
• The MMA Government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2002-08 111
• Al-Huda 121
• 6 The Tehrik-e-Taliban in Swat 131
• Foregrounding the Emergence of the Swat Taliban 132
• The Swat Taliban's Ijtihad on Modernity and Women's Rights 139
• 7 Moving Onwards 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781137388995
• 1137388994

OCLC:

881406958