The Girls Are in Town
Purdah, Emotions and Everyday Resistance in Urban Pakistan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12227063 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabetta Iob (0000-0002-5911-4315, Department of Politics and Social Sciences Università degli Studi di Trieste Trieste Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 931-945 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0953-5233 • E-ISSN: 1468-0424 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0424.70014 |
| OpenAlex | W4415072386 |
| Language | EN |
Pakistan, mid‐1950s. Many upper‐class women had already left or were about to leave purdah (or its remnants). This article investigates how these women challenged seclusion, redefining relations of power, femininity, emotions and the design of urban and public spaces. Drawing on material and visual culture, newspaper clippings and government records, it uncovers the strategies women used to cleverly manipulate the social and emotional intricacies of seclusion to contest and, eventually, subvert the rules of purdah . It goes on to illuminate the pivotal role of non‐Western women and their gendered, situated agency in reshaping women's and global history
Agency (philosophy · CONTEST · Government (linguistics · Newspaper · Resistance (ecology · Seclusion · Situated · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
| Highly cited | No |
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