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Mailing Address International Studies Program 5206 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-5206 USA

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Countries of Specialization Pakistan, India

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Research Interests Women in development (WID); Gender and International Development; Women in Pakistan; Social Change in Pakistan; Political Economy of Pakistan; International Human Rights and Women; Women in Comparative Muslim Societies; Social Change in South Asia; Development in Comparative Muslim Societies; Female Education in Pakistan; Pakistan ethnography; Women in India; South Asian Muslim Women; Islam and Development; Gender and Islam; Human Rights in Pakistan. I have also consulted extensively on gender and development issues in Pakistan. I am the University of Oregon's institutional representative to the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and am a member of the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP).

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Publications * I have published extensively on social development and gender issues in Pakistan, and am now engaged in related research on comparative Muslim societies. My publications include the following books: Power and Civil Society in Pakistan (co-edited with S. Zulfiqar Gilani, Oxford University Press, 2001); Walls within Walls: Life Histories of Working Women in the Old City of Lahore (Westview Press, 1992; being republished by Oxford Univesity Press with a New Introduction, 2002); Culture, Class and Development in Pakistan: the Emergence of an Industrial Bourgeoisie in Punjab (Westview Press, 1991), and Islamic Reassertion in Pakistan: the Application of Islamic Laws in a Modern State (editor, Syracuse University Press, 1986); and numerous articles on culture, women and development in Pakistan including (more recent works): "Envisioning Women's Human Rights in Pakistan: Contexts, Debates and Challenges" (in Suad Joseph (ed.) Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World, in press); "Much Ado about Counting: the Conflict over Holding a Census in Pakistan" Asian Survey (July/August 1999); "Women, Civil Society and Politics in Pakistan" Citizenship Studies (3(1)1999, pp. 141-150); "Pakistan: Some Progress, Sobering Challenges" (in Selig S. Harrison, Paul H. Kreisberg and Dennis Kux (eds.) India & Pakistan: the First Fifty Years Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 132-152); "The Gendered Division of Space and Access in Working Class Areas of Lahore" (Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1998), and "The Society and its Environment" (in Peter R. Blood, editor,Pakistan: A Country Study Area Handbook Series, Library of Congress, 1995). My current research will be published as a book entitled Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women's Rights: Implementing CEDAW in Pakistan, Tunisia and Malaysia.

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