Islamic and Secular Perspective in Gender Politics in Pakistan: Exploring Diversity in Ideologies and practices of Jamaat-e-Islami and NGOs

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2022
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Abstract
Following September 11, 2001 terrorists’ attacks in New York, the debate over gender in Muslim societies has taken a new form in which “women” are explained and judged through pre-defined assumptions. As the Western world suddenly discovered the “miserable” and “depressed” condition of Muslim women and took a passionate stand to safeguard their rights, women’s socio-religious practices (such as purdah) were interpreted as a sign of their oppression. Drawing on yearlong ethnographic fieldwork with women workers of Jamaat-e-Islami and NGOs in Islamabad Pakistan, this paper examines their diverse worldviews, and explicates how and in what ways Muslim women possess distinct personalities that are hard to justify with single identity of “oppressed” and “suffered”. By highlighting the activism of Jamaat-e-Islami and NGOs women workers on the cases of Malala Yousafzai and Aafia Siddqui, the paper shows different ways of utilizing the power of agency, shaped under specific organizational habitus. It argues that there is a need to study Muslim women under the structures in which they are incorporated to explore how they attain a sense of purpose and wellbeing.
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Authors Waheed Chaudhry
Journal Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research
Year 2022
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