TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burki,Shireen
TI  - The politics of state intervention : : gender politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran / 
SN  - 9780739184325 
AV  - HQ1236.5. S66.
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Lanham : 
PB  - Lexington Books, 
KW  - Women's rights
KW  -  South Asia
KW  -  Islamic countries
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Women
KW  -  Government policy
N1  - “Includes bibliography”—(pages 283-297); Contents: Acknowledgments—Introduction—I : Pakistan—1. The politics of gender in Pakistan, 1947-1977 : a historical overview—2. Islamization and female status : life under general Zia-ul-Haq, 1977-19883. State policies and female status in the post-Zia state—II : Afghanistan—4. The politics of gender in Afghanistan (1919-1994) : a historical overview—5. Rise of the Taliban and female practice : the politics of repression, 1996-2001—6. Gender politics in the post-Taliban Afghan state : the politics of accommodation?—III : Iran—7. The politics of gender in Iran, 1906-1941 : from constitutional revolution to monarchical “Modernization”—8. Modernization and female status : life under the second Pahlavi Shah, 1941-1979—9. Trials and tribulations in Iran : gender politics in a theocracy—Conclusion : prospects for Pakistani, Afghan, and Iranian women in the twenty-first century—Bibliography—Index—About the author
ER  -