Faith and Feminism in Pakistan : Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?, Hardc...

Description: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan : Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?, Hardcover by Zia, Afiya S., ISBN 1845199162, ISBN-13 9781845199166, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Zia discusses the influence, impact and interplay of women’s faith-based politics and feminisms in Pakistan. First, she summarizes some of the main debates and strategies that informed the leading urban women’s group, the Women’s Action Forum (WAF) in the 1990s, vis-a-vis positionality and whether to work within the Islam framework or retain a secular alignment. Next, she analyzes the influential work on Muslim women’s pietist agency by Pakistani émigré, Saba Mahmood, in order to demonstrate its impact on the post-secular turn that her thesis has encouraged in academia and the new pedagogy on Muslim women. Following on the heels of the discussion of Muslim women’s docile agency, she presents the contrasting case study of the material and dynamic nationwide health advocacy undertaken by the Lady Health Workers (LWS) who are recruited through a government program. She offers some examples that demonstrate “The Limits of Religious Agency in Pakistan”, and discusses the (re)construction of the “agentive” Islamist woman across the sites of religious nationalisms, Islamic extremism and popular culture in Pakistan. She catalogues variants of the relationship between consumer capitalism and Islam in Pakistan and points out the consequences of the commodification of gendered religious identities. She presents a critical discussion of the often limited and futile methods and strategies of liberal resistance to Islamic conservatism and religious extremism in Pakistan over the last decade, and documents the consequences of pietist agency in the context of the Taliban invasion of northern Pakistan, analyzing two streams of working women’s (secular) movements in Pakistan. While encouraging the expansion of secular spaces and political expressions for women’s progress in Pakistan, she also warns that that patriarchal collusion of religion and local customs and the actors who enable these make it unviable to rely on either of these sources of emancipatory or progressive politics. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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