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What might link a group of middle-class Pakistani women sipping coffee demurely in a living room, with the fiery young women in black burqas threatening shopkeepers in Islamabad? When and how do an adolescent girl's aspirations translate into the maturing of a social and political revolution in urban Pakistan?
On Gendered Spatial and Ritual Politics in Canberra and Islamabad
On Gendered Spatial and Ritual Politics in Canberra and Islamabad
Alleys without Name
There's a street in Karachi that follows the moon…
Near an Imam Baragh, there's a line of houses, with back and front doors and no boundary walls. When the lunar calendar enters the month of Muharram, Shia women make their way to the Imam Baragh daily.
There is a back door to the Imam Baragh for them, for the ones in purdah, and to reach that back door without being gazed upon by strangers in the open streets, they walk through the neighborhood houses.
Back and front doors are flung open, and the women walk through from the hallway ...
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