Jamaat-e-Islami women in Pakistan : vanguard of a new modernity? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jamal, Amina
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2013]
Edition:	First Edition.
Series:	Gender and globalization.
Subjects:	Muslim women > Political activity > Pakistan. Feminism > Religous aspects > Islam. Jamāʻat-i Islāmī-yi Pākistān.

Table of Contents:

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.