A gender lens on religion orit avishai, afshan jafar, rachel. Free download all novels by afshan afridi in pdf format or read online. Professor jafar is the 2014 recipient of the the helen mulvey faculty award, presented to an assistant professor who regularly offers classes that challenge students to work harder than they thought they could and to reach unanticipated levels of academic achievement. Afshan jafar focuses on two case studies of womens ngos set in pakistan.
Pdf women clergy research and the sociology of religion. I focus mainly on general zia ulhaqs influence in fostering and reinforcing certain detrimental ideologies and policies. Nasser mustapha author of sociology for the caribbean. She is the author of womens ngos in pakistan, and the coeditor for bodies without borders and global beauty, local. The sociology of gender and religion first emerged in the 1970s and 1980s with feminist critiques of religion especially in its fundamentalist variants on the one hand, and studies of issues. In this paper, i outline the history of pakistans experience with islamic laws and their impact on women. The information presented helps students consider the validity of these popular attitudes. I also trace the links between the state, nationalism, religion, and womens organizations, and demonstrate how they have shaped womens lives in pakistan. A gender lens on religion orit avishai, afshan jafar. The collection of exciting new research in this special issue advocates for the importance of a gender lens on questions of religion in order to highlight issues, practices, peoples, and theories that would otherwise not be central to the discipline. This book uncovers the skillful maneuvering that women s ngos have to.
Article information, pdf download for a gender lens on religion, open epub for a gender lens on religion. Women in higher education pdf, march 20 by sarah gibbard cook inside higher ed, march 5, 20 by afshan jafar huffington post books, march 4, 20. Afshan jafar is an associate professor of sociology at connecticut college. Her first book, womens ngos in pakistan palgrave macmillan, 2011. She is the author of womens ngos in pakistan, and the coeditor for bodies without. Opinion the thin line between surgery and mutilation. This article describes an exercise designed to introduce the topic of islam and muslims in a sociology of globalization course.
What a greater selection of hues says about culture. The times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. This special issue is the result of concerns about the marginalized status of gender within the sociology of religion. If people stopped talking about race, it wouldnt be a problem anymore. Women, islam, and the state in pakistan springerlink. By afshan jafar afshan jafar is an associate professor of sociology at connecticut college and a public voices fellow with the oped project. The significant structural feature that contextualizes both of jafars case studies is pakistans recent history, in which the quest for a postcolonial national identity has converged with a rising tide of political islam, to define authenticity in ways that make the work of womens rights particularly difficult and even dangerous. See more ideas about political science student, political science and new books. Rachel rinaldo sociology university of colorado boulder. Professor jafar regularly teaches, introduction to sociology. Silencing the myth of a colorblind society 53 ted thornhill. Nasser mustapha is the author of sociology for the caribbean students 3. Afshan afridi list of 25 novels by afshan afridi bookspk.
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