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Contested Identities: gendered politics, gendered religion in Pakistan

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  • Farida Shaheed

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In Pakistan, the self-serving use of Islam by more secular elements alongside politico-religious ones facilitated the latter's increasing influence and the conflation and intricate interweaving of Islam and Pakistani nationhood. A paradigm shift under Zia's martial law revamped society as much as state laws, producing both religiously defined militias and aligned civil society groups. Examining the impact on women of fusing religion and politics, this paper argues that women become symbolic markers of appropriated territory in the pursuit of state power, and that the impact of such fusing, different for differently situated women, needs to be gauged in societal terms as well as in terms of state dynamics. Questioning the positing of civil society as a self-evident progressive desideratum, the paper concludes that gender equality projects seeking reconfigurations of power cannot be effective without vigorously competing in the creation of knowledge, culture and identity.

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  • Farida Shaheed, 2010. "Contested Identities: gendered politics, gendered religion in Pakistan," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 851-867.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:31:y:2010:i:6:p:851-867
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2010.502710
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    1. Muhammad Safdar & Musarat Yasmin, 2020. "COVID‐19: A threat to educated Muslim women's negotiated identity in Pakistan," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(5), pages 683-694, September.
    2. Ataullahjan, Anushka & Mumtaz, Zubia & Vallianatos, Helen, 2019. "Family planning, Islam and sin: Understandings of moral actions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 230(C), pages 49-56.
    3. Nausheen H Anwar & Amiera Sawas & Daanish Mustafa, 2020. "‘Without water, there is no life’: Negotiating everyday risks and gendered insecurities in Karachi’s informal settlements," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(6), pages 1320-1337, May.

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