Conversations with Muslim working women challenge notions of the
"veiled" woman as being victimized or unproductive.
This groundbreaking work sheds new light on the status,
conflicts, and social realities of educated Muslim women in
Pakistan. Six candid interviews introduce the readers to a class of
professional Muslim women rarely, if ever, acknowledged in the
West.
These women tell of the conflicts and compromises with family,
kin, and community, while facing violence, archaic marriage rules,
and locally entrenched codes of conduct. With brave eloquence, they
speak of human dignity and gender equality, economic deprivation
and social justice, and of feminism and fundamentalism. Challenging
prevalent stereotypes, No Shame for the Sun reveals the uniqueness
of each woman, and the diversity of Pakistani Muslim women's life
experiences, their world views, and the struggles to change their
society. Each chapter explores a particular woman's life
experiences and her attempts to reconcile her career with her
personal life, providing examples of ways of resolving religious,
cultural, and political conflicts. Through their struggles,
professional Pakistani women have become conscious of their own and
other women's situations within their society. Because they
exercise power and authority in their chosen fields, they risk
losing their family's support and antagonizing their community.
Carefully detailed and meticulously researched, this book gives
us a much needed perspective to reflect on the changing
circumstances of professional Pakistani women, as well as on the
established patterns and structural constraints within Pakistan. On
a broader level, it examines western misconceptionsregarding Islam,
a religion that crosses many borders and impacts differently upon
many cultures.
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