Collection of three collections by leading Urdu and feminist writer, translated by Tahira Naqvi. Includes "The Quilt and Other Stories", "The Heart Breaks Free", and "The Wild One."

A Chughtai Collection: The Quilt and Other Stories, The Heart Breaks Free, and the Wild One

ISMAT CHUGHTAI

Women Unlimited

The three essays in this volume explore the changing parameters of struggles over gender in Pakistan. In the process, the author attempts to theoretically traverse the boundaries between public and private domains, the State and what is often referred to as 'civil society', the individual and the collective, and the local and international. She does this through a discussion of sovereignty and citizenship; the growing nexus between militarism, masculinism and fundamentalism; and the rapid shrinking of democratic spaces in the country.

Shifting Body Politics: Gender, Nation, State in Pakistan (Feminist Fine Print)

Politics & Social Sciences

Shahnaz Rouse

Women's Studies

Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughati, Sara Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guhathakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen, Kamlaben Patel and many others, speaking and writing about communalism and literature; what they learnt from refugees; and what Partition means to them more than 50 years later. An unusual mix of memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and reflective essays, this anthology is the first attempt to present women's perspective on the Partition of India, based on the experience of three countries.

No Woman's Land: Women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the Partition India

Biographies & Memoirs

Ritu Menon

Community & Culture

For about half a century now, south asia has enjoyed independence and constitutional rule, but many countries have inherited a plural legal system as a legacy of colonialism in all five countries of the region constitutional guarantees of equality and non-discrimination are confounded by discriminatory personal laws that institutionalise gender inequality contributors to this volume address this problem from the perspective of countries that are statedly democratic and secular, as well as those that are theocratic, and from the experience of maintaining plural legal systems specifically, the questions they pose are: has the adoption of secular constitutions in these countries, with guaranteed human rights, made any difference to the legal status of women? what impact, if any, does the adoption of a secular constitution have on the regime of personal laws? has the transition from colonialism to constitutionalism in the era of human rights made any difference to the rights of women? has the adoption of constitutions that recognise equal rights made any difference to the institutionalised private/public divide?

Men’s Laws , Women’s Lives [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2005] Indira Jaising

Indira Jaising

Language: English Pages: 240 About the Book Set in a fictional society in Ahmadabad formed after the communal riots of 2002, Shalom India housing society weaves together the lives of its residents through a series of stories that capture the dilemmas of the last bene Israel Jews in India. How are their relations with other communities changing? Ought they to leave? Where can they go? Do they belong in India, or in Israel? Will they feel at home in Israel? Drawing readers into the world of a microscopic community, the novel traces misunderstandings between parents and children, lovers and neighbours, in stories that are by turns hilarious, bitter-sweet and heartwarming. The spirit of the affectionate, sometimes eccentric, Prophet Elijah to whom the characters turn in their trouble suffuses the novel. Esther David probes the shifting layers of religious and national identity-from the way people dream of homelands imagined or left behind- in prose that is understand but always engaging. About the Author Esther David is the author of the walled city, book of Esther, by the Sabarmati, book of Rachel and my father’s zoo. She has edited an anthology of earthquake stories and co-authored a book, India’s Jewish heritage: ritual, art and life cycle. She is published in French and her work is included in the library of modern Jewish literature, Syracuse university press, New York. She belongs to a bene Israel Jewish family of Ahmadabad and grew up in a zoo created by her father. Contents Acknowledgements

Shalom India Housing Society

Literature & Fiction

Esther, David

Literary

A collection of stories about women for whom food is an obsession, a passion, a gift of love, a source of power and even a means of revenge. Each tale in this book is followed by a recipe.

The Anger of Aubergines Stories of Women and Food

BULBUL SHARMA

Women and Islam: An Historical and Theological Enquiry

In this book the author, who is both a feminist and a Muslim, aims to shed light on the status of women in Islam by examining and reassessing the literary sources as far back as 7th century Islam. She portrays how, far from being the oppressor of women that his detractors have claimed, the Prophet upheld the equality of all true believers. Here is a bold reconciliation of feminism with the Prophet's thoughts and beliefs.

Mernissi, Fatima

Scholarly study,  on education in Aligarh, Delhi, Calcutta, Hyderabad and Calicut. on curriculum, cultural setting, a very personal account based on many interviews and documents

Educating Muslim Girls

Education & Teaching

Zoya Hasan

Schools & Teaching

Captive Gender: Ethnic Stereotypes and Cultural Boundaries

Rada

Kvekovic

Social Sciences

Pakistan s multiple, contradictory, fractured and fragile national identity relies on specific notions of masculinity and femininity, reinforced through an ideology of militarism and religious fundamentalism. The dissemination of this identity through state institutions, educational curricula, madrassas and, increasingly, through parts of civil society as analysed by the author, calls into question the very basis of a national identity predicated on religion and the subordination of women.  Saigol critically examines the unstable genealogy of this idea of Pakistan from Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and M.A Jinnah to Zia ul-Haq, through a gendered lens thus exposing its many, often contradictory, premises and assumptions. She then discusses the complex layering of this idea as it has evolved over the last sixty years, whether insidiously through textbooks and laws, violently through the construction and persecution of enemies of state or explicitly through the military s claims of safeguarding national security. Saigol interrogates the successive mythical ideas of Pakistan that have been deployed by the state, vested interests, civilian and military ruling elites and religious institutions in order to subvert democratic development, especially gender equality.

The Pakistan Project: A Feminist Perspective on Nation & Identity

Rubina Saigol

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