dc.contributor.author | Khan, Ayesha | |
dc.contributor.author | Kirmani, Nida | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Pakistan | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-12-18T11:18:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-12-18T11:18:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-11-27 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Khan, A. and Kirmani, N. (2018) Moving Beyond the Binary: Gender-based Activism in Pakistan. Feminist Dissent, (3), 151-191 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14196 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article challenges the binary framework within which women in Pakistan have been viewed, by political actors, the state, and more broadly as well, as either ‘secular/feminist/godless/Westernised’ or ‘authentic/
Islamic/traditional’. It begins by contextualising the genealogy of this binary in Pakistan’s colonial and political history, which has led to the state’s side-lining of moderate religious voices and promotion of right-wing religious parties that suited its political objectives. Even the scholarship produced by the women’s movement, which arose in response to a politicised Islamisation process begun under military rule in the 1980s, inadvertently reproduces this binary as activists sought to assert a rights-based agenda and were supported by international donor funds. A shift in recent years in response to West-based international scholarship post 9/11, which focusses on the subjectivity and organisation of Islamist women, has influenced work on women in Pakistan as well as a donor turn to funding faith-based initiatives. The paper then examines current gender justice movements that emerged independently at a grass-roots level, and draws attention to their effectiveness despite lack of strong linkages with either the women’s movement or Islamist women. These include rights-based mobilisations by peasant women, community health workers, tribal
women in the Taliban/conflict-affected north-west, and transgender activism. It ends by challenging feminists to engage more deeply with these forms of activism. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Warwick University | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Feminist Dissent;3 | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Gender | en |
dc.title | Moving Beyond the Binary: Gender-based Activism in Pakistan | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | © Copyright: The Authors. | |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/feministdissent/article/view/286 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-11-27 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Department for International Development, UK Government | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Action for Empowerment and Accountability Programme | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | d5bf6ce9-c132-438b-b27d-20b245939583 | en |