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. |