Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan : Vanguard of a New Modernity? / Amina Jamal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamal, Amina.

Series:

Gender and globalization.

Gender and globalization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Religous aspects--Islam.

Feminism.

Muslim women--Political activity--Pakistan.

Muslim women.

Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book critically examines the feminization of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a major movement for Islamic renewal and reform in South Asia. Through an ethnographic and textual study of Jamaat women elected to local, provincial, and national bodies in Pakistan from 2002 to 2008, Jamal draws attention to the cultural-political forces that enabled these women to become influential within the party and in Pakistan's major urban centers of Karachi and Lahore.Jamal situates Jamaat women within Islamic modernism without reifying them as either pious agents reacting to state-imposed modernization or gendered citizens who use Islam for class-based instrumental ends. Jamaat women are represented as subjects who move in many directions by acting against and through the discourses of Islamic tradition, cultural modernity, and modernization.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780815652373

0815652372

OCLC:

872675882