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

Main Author: Jamal, Amina.
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Series:Gender and globalization series
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10833449
Table of 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.