{"id":20385,"date":"2014-10-13T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T21:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=20385"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:45:55","slug":"interpreting-islam-modernity-womens-rights-pakistan-new-book-anita-weiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/interpreting-islam-modernity-womens-rights-pakistan-new-book-anita-weiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan \u2014 a new book by Anita Weiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/research\/books-film\/2014-affiliate-publications\/interpreting-islam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20382\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20382\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Interpreting-Islam.jpg\" alt=\"Interpreting Islam\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Interpreting-Islam.jpg 200w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Interpreting-Islam-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan<\/strong><\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014) is the latest book by <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.uoregon.edu\/aweiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anita M. Weiss<\/a>, professor and head, UO Department of International Studies. Professor Weiss is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/page\/detail\/interpreting-islam,-modernity,-and-women%E2%80%99s-rights-in-pakistan-anita-m--weiss\/?isb=9781137388995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Publisher\u2019s synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women&#8217;s rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan\u2019s construction of an understanding of what constitutes women\u2019s rights, moves on to address traditional views and contemporary popular opinion on women\u2019s rights, and then focuses on three very different groups\u2019 perceptions of women\u2019s rights: progressive women\u2019s organizations as represented by the Aurat Foundation and Shirkat Gah; orthodox Islamist views as represented by the Jama\u2019at-i-Islami, the MMA government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2002-08) and al-Huda; and the Swat Taliban. Author Anita M. Weiss analyzes the resultant \u2018culture wars\u2019 that are visibly ripping the country apart, as groups talk past one another\u2014each confidant that they are the proprietors of culture and interpreters of religion while others are misrepresenting it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women\u2019s Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, October 2014) is the latest book by Anita M. Weiss, professor and head, UO Department of International Studies. Professor Weiss is a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. Publisher\u2019s synopsis \u201cIn Pakistan,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/interpreting-islam-modernity-womens-rights-pakistan-new-book-anita-weiss\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17,15,5],"tags":[150,56,158],"class_list":["post-20385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-faculty-affiliates","category-people","category-research","tag-anita-m-weiss","tag-csws","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20385"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33226,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20385\/revisions\/33226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}