Deconstructing Islamization in Pakistan: Sabiha Sumar wages feminist cinematic jihad through a documentary lens

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dc.contributor.authorImran, Rahat
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-17T15:21:26Z
dc.date.available2021-12-17T15:21:26Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.updated2021-12-17T15:15:31Z
dc.description.abstractOver half a billion Muslim women live in vastly different lands, cultures, societies, economies, and political systems. Yet, as Iranian scholar Mahnaz Afkhami points out, Muslim women’s oppressions are similar due to gender-discrimination under Islamic Sharia laws and patriarchal doctrines that are exercised in the name of religion and culture. Pakistan has been a prime example of how religious fundamentalism and politicization of religion can transform a secular society into one held hostage by Islamic extremist doctrines and gender-specific laws. It is a cause for hope and celebration then that its progressive and secular elements, particularly educated, urban women, have continued to wage a struggle against discriminatory socio-political and religious practices through various artistic, political, and activist channels-thereby posing a continuing opposition and challenge to religious fundamentalists that use women as the prime targets for the imposition of their Islamic ideologies and identity. More recently, Pakistani independent women filmmakers have also joined the ranks of this oppositional force, thereby appropriating their right to wage a feminist jihad (struggle). In initiating an anti-fundamentalist cinema category, their cinematic contributions deserve to be recognized as part of a larger feminist agenda against gender discrimination and patriarchal domination.en
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dc.identifier.citationImran, R. (2008) 'Deconstructing Islamization in Pakistan: Sabiha Sumar wages feminist cinematic jihad through a documentary lens', Journal of International Women's Studies, 9(3), pp. 117-154. Available at: uri:https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol9/iss3/8 (Accessed: 17 December 2021)en
dc.identifier.endpage154en
dc.identifier.issn1539-8706
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of International Women's Studiesen
dc.identifier.startpage117en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/12355
dc.identifier.volume9en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherJournal of International Women's Studiesen
dc.relation.urihttps://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol9/iss3/8
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dc.subjectPakistani womenen
dc.subjectFeminist documentary filmen
dc.subjectIslamization and fundamentalismen
dc.subjectIslamic Sharia lawsen
dc.titleDeconstructing Islamization in Pakistan: Sabiha Sumar wages feminist cinematic jihad through a documentary lensen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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