Pakistani Women: Multiple Locations and Competing Narratives (Oxford in Pakistan Readings in Sociology & Social Anthropology) - Hardcover

Sadaf Ahmad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195477057 ISBN 13: 9780195477054

Publisher: OUP Pakistan, 2010

Synopsis

The different chapters cover an entire range of localities, from rural to urban settings, and from small town to Diaspora. Most of the chapters are driven by ethnographic data, while some are more theoretical. Yet despite all this diversity of time, place and approach, a number of cross cutting themes come out in these chapters, themes that play a critical role in encouraging the reader to recognise the similarity and diversity of Pakistani women's experiences within a culture made up of a variety of ideologies that are often in conflict with each other. A dearth of knowledge exists about Pakistani women; knowledge that adequately represents the diversity found amongst women in this part of South Asia, and that is able to capture the rich details of their lives. While there may be many cross cutting themes in their lives-by virtue of being citizens of the same nation and hence being exposed to a particular history, power structures, and customs-there is also immense variation based on where they are placed in terms of rural-urban setting, ethnic background, class affiliation, social structures, and so on. This volume attempts to capture some of that diversity in the spirit of moving away from the homogenous images of Pakistani women that grace their representation in much of the world.

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About the Author

Sadaf Ahmad is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She completed her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Syracuse University in 2006. She received her MA in Gender, Anthropology and Development from Goldsmiths College, University of London, in 2001, and has a Master's degree in Psychology from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Pakistan
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0195477057
• ISBN 13: 9780195477054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 326