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The Women’s Movement(s)Pakistan…
Whose culture, whose issues, whose movement?
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Women
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Which women
?
Metal scrap workers
Rural women
Urban women
Stock Exchange workers
Who defines ‘womanhood’? ‘Culture’?‘authenticity’?
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Which Issues?What strategies?
Education
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Women’s Reform Movement – The struggle for ‘modern’ education
Nazi Fyzee & Atiya Fyzee, 1906
Zohra Fyzee & Atiya Fyzee
1925Atiya & Nazli gatecrash & disrupt MEC Conference to ensure women never excluded again
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Economic Rights: 1935, 1951…2008InheritanceProperty rights
1951: economic rights: exclusion from Inheritance & Property rights
1935 –1937 Muslim Personal (Shariat) Application Act
Gives women right to inherit property, never implemented
Demanding land
Demanding
work
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Personal status rights?
SG training - Lahore High Court Women’s Bar Room
State culture vs. Sub-state collective identity= family, clan, ethnicity, religion
Collective identity blocks de jure rights as ‘customs’
Voting & running for office Employment, EducationWhether & who to marry
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Which historical & political environment?
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Gain right to vote and stand for elections 17 years before France 1921-1925
Demonstration Women’s Jail, Lahore
Women members assembly
Independence movement
Courting arrest
Redefining group membership as
citizens
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Martial law justifying itself as “Islamic”
Criminalises consensual sex, Qisas & diyat – introduces barbaric punishments religious apartheid
Questions + rescinds women’s rightsIntroduces new dress codes
Burning veils – protesting cultural impositions& Control
1977-1988
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Women’s Action Forum
Protesting new criminal laws
Religious interpretation
sTaking the
streetsJalsas: songs,
poetry & laughter
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Whose movement?
WAF limited by class & urban location…still
Engage with the state or notState-centred activism vs. ground changes Political or non-political & links with politiciansWithin framework of Islam or notFeminist vs. women’s rights movement
Vexatious questions
Defied martial lawRejected “Islamic” laws/policiesPut women permanently on national agenda
Alliances with • other
women• other
groups
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Democratisation meant… Inserting women into other movements…Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights Lobby political parties Labour groupsPeasant groups
No single voice for women…Unity in diversity
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Peasants confronting the state for land
Women’s Thappa brigade
2000-2003
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Thappas = Women’s
threshing sticks
Thappas = protection
family & fieldsSymbol of resistance
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Gaining/using knowledge
Legal awareness
Social & political awareness
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Movements are about solidarity
Asian Conference – Lahore 1932
WLUMLTraining - 2000
Peasant women –Pakistan 2008
Linking across the divides
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Democratic or authoritarian states shape the context & so women’s movement(s)
Women’s location in social groups shapes their dreams of the possible & strategies for change
Who speaks for the community?Which oppression is critical & which can be challenged today? What sources of support? What obstacles? Land from government not from brothers
How to integrate & sustain movements
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but always entails a cycle of reflection, analysis and decision for action: Paolo Freire
Empowerment can be catalysed by any activity…
Women are the fulcrum of their own empowerment
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United we stand, divided we fall
Our culture must become ours to define…