Feminism in Pakistan

Feminists on

Other Sites:

Sara Suleri

Other Feminists:

Internet Sites:

SAWNET: South Asian Women's Net can be accessed here.

You can reach the ASR Resource Centre, Pakistan, here.

You can access the Simorgh Women's Resource and Publication Centre here.

The Pakistan Girl Guides Association webpage is located here.

Introduction

This page contains General information, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion in Pakistan.



Bibliography

General Information

Human Rights Watch Staff. Pakistan: Double Jeopardy -- Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan. Human Rights Watch.

In the Court of Women. Simorgh, 1995.

Masroor, Mehr Niga. Shadows of Time. ASR, 1995.

Mumtaz, Khawar and Farida Shaheed, ed. Women of Pakistan: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back? (out of print)

Qureshi,Shujauddin. "Pakistan's new Army: Girls in School," WIN: Women's International Net Issue 5.

Qureshi,Shujauddin. "When Honour Becomes Dishonourable," WIN: Women's International Net Issue 7A.

Raza, Anjana. The Quilt Book. Simorgh, 1995.

Reinventing Women. Simorgh, 1987.

Zafar, Fareeha. Finding Our Way: Women in Pakistan. (out of print)



History

Visram, Rozina. Women in India and Pakistan: The Struggle for Independence from British Rule. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.



Literature

Ahmad, Rukhsana, ed. Beyond Belief: Contemporary Feminist Urdu Poetry. ASR, 1995.

Bhutto, Fatima. Whispers from the Desert. Oxford, 1997.



Politics

ASR Group. Unveiling the Issues. ASR, 1995.

Chitkara, M.G. Benazir -- A Profile. South Asia Books, 1990.

Mernissi, Fatima. Can We Women Head a Muslim State. Simorgh, 1991.

Minault, Gail. The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan. South Asia Books, 1990.

Qureshi,Shujauddin. "No Better than a Man? Benazir Bhutto Under Fire," WIN: Women's International Net Issue 12B (Aug. 1998).



Religion

Bhasin, Kamla, Ritu Menon, and Nighat Said, ed. Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion, and Development from India and Pakistan. (out of print)

Khan, Nighat Said. Islam and Feminism. ASR, 1995.

Masroor, Mehr Niga. Up Against the State: Essays on Islamisation and Women in Pakistan. ASR, 1995.

Mernissi, Fatima. Can We Women Head a Muslim State. Simorgh, 1991.

Mernissi, Fatima. The Fundamentalist Obsession with Women. Simorgh, 1987.

Mernissi, Fatima. Hidden from History: Forgotten Queens of Islam. ASR, 1995.

Weiss, Anita M. Women in Pakistan: Implications of the Current Program of Islamization. Michigan State Univ. Press, 1985.



Filmography

"Untangling the Knot."

"Mother I Have Many Dreams."

"When This Day Is Named."