Women, islam, and the state in Pakistan

Jafar, Afshan

doi:10.1007/s12147-005-0009-z

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“…Compared to Pakistan, Germany has attained a considerable degree of gender equality and women have a relatively high degree of participation in socio-economic life. Conversely, Pakistan is a conservative society where women, especially from low socio-economic and rural background, have a very low level of socio-economic participation and live under a rigid patriarchal structure (Critelli [2010]; Jafar [2005]).…”

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Intimate partner violence against women and its related immigration stressors in Pakistani immigrant families in Germany

Zakar

Faist

et al. 2012

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This paper addresses the issue of intimate partner violence against women and its related immigration stressors in Pakistani immigrant families in Germany. Drawing on 32 in-depth interviews with Pakistani women in three cities in Germany, we found that psychological violence was the commonly reported violence among the study participants. The data showed that the process of immigration exacerbated tensions between spouses because of various immigration stressors such as threats to cultural identity, children’s socialization, and social isolation. In order to cope with the stressful spousal relations, women applied various indigenous strategies, but avoided seeking help from the host country’s formal care-providing institutions. This study also debunks some stereotypes and popular media clichés about the “victimhood of women from conservative developing countries” and provides an understanding of the issue of intimate partner violence within an immigration context. Further research with a larger sample will be helpful to understand immigration-induced stress and intimate partner violence in immigrant families.

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Intimate partner violence against women and its related immigration stressors in Pakistani immigrant families in Germany

Zakar

Faist

et al. 2012

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“…Though a number of factors like class, region, locality, ethnicity, social status, age and historical specificity have intersected to define and position gender of Muslim women in Pakistan, the intervention of religion and state discourses has always had, throughout the country's history, a major influence on the construction of the perceptions and expectations associated with gender (Jafar, 2005;Jamal, 2006;Julia, 2013;Mumtaz & Shaheed, 1987;Shaheed, 2010;Yasmin, Naseem & Sohail, 2019;Yasmin, Naseem & Raza, 2018;Zia, 2018).…”

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COVID‐19: A threat to educated Muslim women's negotiated identity in Pakistan

Safdar

Yasmin

2020

Gender Work & Organization

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This study attempts to explore how the lockdown/containment measures taken by the government during the COVID‐19 pandemic have threatened educated Muslim women's negotiated identity regarding wifehood and motherhood in urban Pakistan and how they struggle to reposition to reconstruct it. Through semi‐structured interviews, making an in‐depth comparative study of three differently situated cases (Muslim women), this study argues that the abnormal situation that has ensued from the pandemic has reinforced the vulnerability of women's nascent negotiated identity by landing them in a space where they are supposed by the normative structures to step back to carrying out their traditional responsibilities as ‘good’ wife and mother during the crisis. It has found that the pandemic has similarity in its impacts for the women in their familial lives, despite their being variously situated and resistive, due to the general religio‐culturally defined patriarchal social behaviour of the place (Pakistan) toward women and lack of action on the part of the state for implementing its laws of women's empowerment.

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“…Similarly, there have been instances when women were raped by the order of the tribal council to avenge the honor of someone's family (Kristof 2005;Hussain 2006). These state policies had serious implications as to how state institutions marginalize women and have resulted in miscarriages of justice (Mumtaz and Shaheed 1987;Jafar 2005;Shaheed 2010). The complicity of the state in crimes against women held back the chances of any rights-based discourse on the situation of women in Pakistan for many years (Kothari 2005: 349;Mullally 2005).…”

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Gender Inequality in the Public Sector in Pakistan

Chauhan¹

2014

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Women, islam, and the state in Pakistan

Cited by 66 publications

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Intimate partner violence against women and its related immigration stressors in Pakistani immigrant families in Germany

Intimate partner violence against women and its related immigration stressors in Pakistani immigrant families in Germany

COVID‐19: A threat to educated Muslim women's negotiated identity in Pakistan

Gender Inequality in the Public Sector in Pakistan

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