Purdah in Pakistan
Seclusion and Modern Occupations for Women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2586565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hanna Papanek (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1971 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 517 |
| Publication date | 1971-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Marriage and the Family (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2445 • E-ISSN: 1741-3737 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/349849 |
| OpenAlex | W2083462914 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 54 |
The purdah system, which limits a woman's mobility outside her home, may be an extreme example of highly segregated systems of sex role allocation, but shows many fundamental features in common with other societies. Purdah is an important institution among Muslims in Pakistan and India, but has not been well studied, partly because secluded women are inaccessible to male researchers. The purdah system is related to status, the division of labor, interpersonal dependency, social distance and the maintenance of moral standards; the two conceptual formulations used to analyze the system with reference to these factors are separate worlds and symbolic shelter. In the present paper, special emphasis is placed on the influence of purdah observance and values on women's participation in modern occupations. Medicine and teaching are found to be the most important high prestige occupations for educated women because of the special needs of a female clientele in a sex-segregated system
Division of labour · Formality · Hierarchy · Institution · Political science · Prestige · Seclusion · Social science · Sociology · Education and Islamic Studies · Gender Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Staying at Home
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Design Practice
Thoughts on Poverty from a South Asian Rubbish Dump
Health transition review
Gender and Religious Socialization
Changing Family Patterns
Workplace Attributes and Women's Labor Supply Decisions
My Four Revolutions
Men, Women, and Work
Gender inequality in mobility and mode choice in Pakistan
Testing the Veracity of Self-Reported Religious Practice in the Muslim World
A Foreign Woman Researcher in a Purdah Society
Convergence or Divergence in Third World Medical Education? An Arab Study
Sectarian Affiliation and Gender Traditionalism
Young Hijabis in Kashmir
Agents of Change
Behind the veil
Microfinance and women entrepreneurs in Pakistan
Comparative Marriage and the Family
A Social Structural and Historical Analysis of Honor, Shame and Purdah
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
Politiques médicales et politiques du genre dans l'Inde coloniale
Returning home
Women's Movement in Pakistan
Purdah or Ghunghat, a Powerful Means to Control Women
Negotiating Gender Relations
The effects of gender transport poverty in Karachi”
Debating empowerment
Tradition and modernity at the workplace
Discourses of gender identities and gender roles in Pakistan
Bargaining with Patriarchy” and Entrepreneurship
As mulheres muçulmanas precisam realmente de salvação
Flagellation and Fundamentalism
Accommodations to Purdah
Cross-Societal Family Research
Purdah and Changing Patterns of Social Control among Rural Women in Bangladesh
Some Determinants of Modernism among Women in Ankara, Turkey
Women's education and social change among indian Muslims in historical perspective
Songs of war and despair
Private health care providers in rural Bangladesh
Conditions influencing rural and town women's participation in the labor force
Female embodiment and patriarchal bargains
Sexuality — an Islamic historical perspective with special reference to South Asia
Purdah , mobility and women's empowerment and reproductive behaviour in rural Bangladesh
Additional Returns to Investing in Girls' Education
Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency
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Women in the Economy
Part II
Purdah
| Unique citing works | 54 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2026 (55) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |