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 Between Chaddor and the Market
Product Details:
Author: Jasmin Mirza | ISBN: 0-19-579623-3 | Format: Hardcover | Pages: 266 | Weight: 1.19 lbs | Pub. Date: 2002 | Publisher: Oxford University Press
DESCRIPTION
Women from the conservative lower-middle class are entering offices in urban Pakistan, driven there by economic conditions and changing demand patterns. This book analyses this new phenomenon, and puts it in perspective by providing a background discussion of the life of lower-middle-class women in Pakistani society. It shows that women are seizing the new opportunities that are coming their way. More and more women from the lower-middle class are opting for a market-oriented education, and are using many strategies to make their work routine a part of their everyday lives. All this is resulting in new concepts of female employment among lower-middle-class families; and diversified gender images regarding women, in their everyday lives as well as in the workplace, are taking shape in the public mind.
As a work of social anthropology with a feminist perspective, the author has successfully analysed the socio-cultural dichotomy through interviews with working women. She has described how and why women, despite the gender-based constraints of Pakistani society, have stepped into the market-economy and work force.
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