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"O Women, reform and mend your ways": The Gendering of Knowledge in the Muslim Reformist Discourse of Modern South Asia Katherine Blank was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for three months. Blank "considers women’s involvement in the discourse surrounding women’s health in colonial India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by looking at women’s magazines from that same peri... History • Human Rights -- Gender • Education -- Women's Education An Examination of NGO Strategies and Interventions to Address Gender-Based Violence in Pakistan: Impacts, Successes, and Challenges Filomena Critelli a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Critelli "examines the strategies, methods of intervention and perceived impact of NGO’s that empower women and seek to delimit gender based violence in Pakistan." Human Rights -- Gender • Social Science -- Gender Da katchero chakaray: Litigating divorce in Pakistan Sana Naeem was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Naeem's research focuses on "khula litigation in the family courts in Peshawar and Islamabad," aiming to "study how these sites witness and influence the making and... Human Rights -- Gender • Law Equitable Gender Attitudes and Women’s Autonomy in Pakistan Natalya Rahman was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in primarily Karachi, Pakistan for three months. Rahman's "outcome variable, i.e., equitable gender attitudes, has direct implications for the nature of women’s political participation in Pakistan, moving beyon... Human Rights -- Gender • Social Science -- Gender • Political Science -- Activism • Political Science -- Government New Books in Islamic Studies: Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Anita Weiss to discuss her book, "Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). "By exploring how multiple state and non-state actors have engaged the question of gender and women's rights over... Human Rights • Human Rights -- Gender • Political Science -- Development • Social Science -- Gender Translucent Citizenship: Khwaja Sira Activism and Alternatives to Dissent in Pakistan Faris Khan explores the recent activism of the 'Khwaja Sira,' a group of gender nonconforming people with cultural significance. Khan explores the recent gains made in the legal rights of the Kwaja Sira and how activism has shaped the movement into society. History • Human Rights • Human Rights -- Gender • Political Science • Social Science • Social Science -- Gender

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"O Women, reform and mend your ways": The Gendering of Knowledge in the Muslim Reformist Discourse of Modern South Asia

Katherine Blank was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London for three months. Blank "considers women’s involvement in the discourse surrounding women’s health in colonial India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by looking at women’s magazines from that same peri...

An Examination of NGO Strategies and Interventions to Address Gender-Based Violence in Pakistan: Impacts, Successes, and Challenges

Filomena Critelli a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Critelli "examines the strategies, methods of intervention and perceived impact of NGO’s that empower women and seek to delimit gender based violence in Pakistan."

Human Rights -- Gender • Social Science -- Gender

Da katchero chakaray: Litigating divorce in Pakistan

Sana Naeem was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Naeem's research focuses on "khula litigation in the family courts in Peshawar and Islamabad," aiming to "study how these sites witness and influence the making and...

Human Rights -- Gender • Law

Equitable Gender Attitudes and Women’s Autonomy in Pakistan

Natalya Rahman was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in primarily Karachi, Pakistan for three months. Rahman's "outcome variable, i.e., equitable gender attitudes, has direct implications for the nature of women’s political participation in Pakistan, moving beyon...

Human Rights -- Gender • Social Science -- Gender • Political Science -- Activism • Political Science -- Government

New Books in Islamic Studies: Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan

In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Anita Weiss to discuss her book, "Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women's Rights in Pakistan" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). "By exploring how multiple state and non-state actors have engaged the question of gender and women's rights over...

Human Rights • Human Rights -- Gender • Political Science -- Development • Social Science -- Gender

Translucent Citizenship: Khwaja Sira Activism and Alternatives to Dissent in Pakistan

Faris Khan explores the recent activism of the 'Khwaja Sira,' a group of gender nonconforming people with cultural significance. Khan explores the recent gains made in the legal rights of the Kwaja Sira and how activism has shaped the movement into society.

History • Human Rights • Human Rights -- Gender • Political Science • Social Science • Social Science -- Gender

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