Re-conceptualizing Feminism in the context of Pakistan

Journal of Indian Education, Volume XXXII Number 1 May 2006, pp.80-95., 2006

Feminist Research, 2020

This paper is historisization of feminism/feminist movement in Pakistan which has been influenced by national and global rearrangement of power, nationalism, dictatorship, democracy and the War on Terror (WoT). It presents the evolution and transformation of feminism in Pakistan since its inception; also gives an overview of the issues, challenges and achievements of the feminism and how it has evolved to its recent form passing through over seven decades of its journey. It also tries to address the question, where it goes from here, whether the feminist movement expands its scope, or shrivels into little niche pockets of identity-based resistance, is a question for the future. The article heavily relies on desk review of literature produced on feminism in Pakistan. Additionally, a qualitative research was carried out to explore subjectivities, realities, and opinions of women who have been part of feminist movement through in-depth interviews. The second part of in depth interviews...

Socio Cultural Factors of Female Literacy, 2023

Female literacy is considered lower due to social and cultural factors. The sociocultural factors effect female literacy but the education of females play main role in development of society as well as country. The objective of study was follows; firstly, to explain the social factors that act as barrier to female education. Secondly to investigate the cultural factors responsible for girls education. The methodology for data collection was Descriptive. Methods selected for study was Survey method. The tools used for study was Questionnaire. The sample of 50 students was selected from university graduate from Bachelor and master degree. The unit of analysis was educated females. The study was significant to highlights the importance of female education in relation to their contribution to development. It also explain the main social and cultural constrains that lower female education. It also highlights the importance of female education in the perspective of educated females.

Journal of emerging technologies and innovative research, 2020

Since Independence state has shown special concern in uplifting the status of the country through education. Creating provision of the universalization of the elementary education in the country through article 45 under the directive principle of the constitution and various committees and commissions constituted in this regard left no doubt about the intention of the state in achieving major targets of development through education. For six decades, the nation has worked and moved towards building and sustaining a secular democracy and advancing the interests of the historically disadvantaged sections to include women, the Scheduled castes (SC), the Scheduled Tribes (ST) and the minorities But all these attempts by the state about the universalization of elementary education and secondary education respectively seemed to fail their goals due to prevailing socioeconomic, political and economic factors. Due to the overshadowing impact of these factors in one way or the other, one may...

2011

This dissertation is a qualitative case study of women’s political participation in local government in District Hyderabad, Pakistan from a feminist perspective. There is a longstanding patriarchal trend of elite women’s selective political participation in Pakistan. But recently introduced local government system with increased quota (33%) for women brought a large mass of non-elite women in local politics. This research explores the social dynamics behind this changing pattern through semi-structured interviews with 53 elected women local councilors in the district. It argues that there is a dialectical relationship between patriarchy and women’s political participation. It shows how patriarchal structures have reconfigured to enhance their interest by bringing non-elite women into politics for their power interest. The women, who entered politics, do not challenge the patriarchal structures; rather they use them as resources to facilitate their entry and survival in politics. Thi...

Feminist and women's rights consciousness in Pakistan has historically been shaped in response to national and global reconfigurations of power including colonialism, nationalism, dictatorship, democracy and the Global War on terror (GWot). the relationship between the women's movement and the Pakistani state has undergone significant shifts, from mutual accommodation and a complementary ethos to confrontation and conflict, followed by collaboration, co-optation and, finally, collusion depending upon transformations in the nature of the state at particular moments in history. the strategies of the women's movement reflect significant shifts, from a focus on education and welfare to legal reform, and ultimately to women's political and economic rights.

2020

Since March 2019, local NGOs in Pakistan are organizing “Aurat March” (Women March) in month of March to raise voice against indigenous feminine issues and violence against women. In hindu-originated society like Pakistan, where Islamic women rights haven’t implemented in its true spirit yet, digesting such a “liberal” act is not easily digestible. Thus different intellectual classes took social media on fire to outdo each other and central topic of cross arguments was slogans raised in the March. Raising slogans is a traditional way of weaker class in society to demonstrate against discrimination and emit emotional suffocation. To study underlying meanings of much debated slogans of Aurat March in Pakistan, discourse analysis is employed which also facilitated to indicate emerging dimension socio-religious debates and opinions towards feminism in Pakistan.

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