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Author Khan, Shahnaz

Title Zina, transnational feminism, and the moral regulation of Pakistani women / Shahnaz Khan
Published Vancouver [B.C.] : UBC Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages)
Contents Contents -- Important Dates -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1 Native Informing on the Zina Ordinance -- 2 Contextualizing the Zina Ordinance -- 3 Speaking to the Women -- 4 Disobedient Daughters, Errant Wives, and Others -- 5 Current Challenges to the Zina Ordinance -- 6 A Politics of Transnationality and Reconfigured Native Informing -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Summary "Over a five-year period, Shahnaz Khan interviewed women incarcerated under the zina laws in Pakistan. She argues that the zina laws help situate morality within the individual, thus de-emphasizing the prevalence of societal injustice. She also examines the production and reception of knowledge in the west about women in the third world. She concludes that transnational feminist solidarity can help women identify the linkages between the local and global and challenge oppressive practices internationally."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-144) and index
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Subject Sex discrimination against women -- Pakistan
Women (Islamic law) -- Pakistan
Fornication (Islamic law)
Women -- Pakistan -- Social conditions
Feminism -- International cooperation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminism -- International cooperation
Fornication (Islamic law)
Sex discrimination against women
Women (Islamic law)
Women -- Social conditions
Discrimination à l'égard des femmes -- Pākistān.
Féminisme -- Coopération internationale.
Femmes -- Droit islamique -- Pākistān.
Fornication (Droit islamique)
Femmes -- Pākistān -- Conditions sociales.
Pakistan
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780774855242
077485524X