seminar: women's movement in Pakistan

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                MPHIL IN ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES
        DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN

                        In association with
                                WERRC
WOMEN'S EDUCATION RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN


                HAVE GREAT PLEASURE TO INVITE YOU TO A

                        PUBLIC SEMINAR

                                by

                        NIGHAT SAID KHAN
                ASR RESOURCE CENTRE, LAHORE, PAKISTAN


     THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN PAKISTAN AND FEMINIST CHALLENGES IN THE LIGHT
OF
                RIGHT WING AND FUNDAMENTALIST AGENDAS.


                        Thursday, 18 June 1998

                                1400-1700

              Room 3071, ARTS BUILDING, TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN


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ABSTRACT:
>
>This paper will look at various dimensions of the new global
>order in terms of its economic, political, social and ideological
>implications. On the one hand there is a supposed liberalisation
>of the economy and a push towards centralisation at the global
>and national level and decentralisation at the local levels. On
>the other this very liberalisation is causing the state to
>abdicate its role as safeguarding the interests of citizens and
>is also allowing for a range of identities to emerge which are
>leading to extreme conservatism, fragmentation, disintegration
>and alienation.
>
>All of this has an immense impact on women and it seems likely
>that it will reverse many of the gains women may have made. On
>the one hand the more vocal and sophisticated aspects of the
>women's movement will increasingly get coopted and mainstreamed
>into this global agenda and on the other it will marginalise and
>further pauperise those not in the mainstream.
>
>The women's movement (women's studies and women's activism) must
>face this challenge so that it does not lose its impetus. This
>paper will critically look at the women's movement in Pakistan
>over the last 20 years, will concentrate on where it is today and
>areas of concern for the future.
>
>
NIGHAT SAID KHAN:
>
>B.A., Political Science, Columbia University; M.A.,Development
>Economics, University of Manchester; Ph.D., course work on Peasant
>Politics from the University of Manchester, UK.  Runs the ASR Resource
>Centre and is a founder member of WAF. Author and editor of several
>books and aricles on feminism and political economy including : 'Voices Within:
>Dialouges with women on Islam'(1992); co editor, 'Locating the Self:
>Perspective on Women and Multiple Identities' (1994); 'Unveiling the
>Issues' (1995); 'Aspects of Women and Development' (1995); 'A Celebration
>of Women'(1995). Core faculty and Dean INSTITUTE OF WOMEN'S STUDIES
>LAHORE.
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Dr Ronit Lentin
Course coordinator, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies,
Dept of Sociology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
Tel: 353 1 608 2766 Fax: 353 1 677 1300 Email: rlentin at tcd.ie
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