Jamaat-e-Islami women in Pakistan : vanguard of a new modernity? /
Amina Jamal.
- First edition.
- 1 online resource (322 pages).
- Gender and globalization series .
- Gender and globalization. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Muslim women--Political activity--Pakistan--Pāṭa. Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies. RELIGION--Islam--General. Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam. Muslim women--Political activity.