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

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Author / Creator:Jamal, Amina.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2013.
Description:xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Gender and globalization
Gender and globalization.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9857992
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ISBN:9780815633273 (cloth)
0815633270 (cloth)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.