| ID | 045311 |
| Call Number | 891.43916/AHM |
| Title Proper | We Sinful Women |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ahmad Rukhsana Ahmad |
| Publication | Delhi, Rupa & Co, 1990. |
| Description | 193p |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Here is a moving and courageous
reversal of an old, male literary tradition
of the Indian subcontinent: the courtly
Urdu love poetry, transformed by
contemporary Pakistani women poets to
express their social, political and
personal resistance to the
Islamisation campaigns of the eighties.
These championed the veil for women,
introduced stoning as a punishment for
'adultery' (not distinguished from rape)
and threatened educational
opportunities for girls. The fear of
further oppression still looms large for
women in Pakistan in the nineties.
Rukhsana Ahmad's inspiring book will
appeal to all women caught in the
religious and cultural conflicts of our
time and to readers interested in sexual
politics. It provides a new insight into
the history of the women's movement
in Pakistan.
We Sinful Women is a useful text for
students and teachers involved in multicultural studies or in the study of
literature, especially that from the
subcontinent, as an original and
translated text. |
| Contents | We Sinful Women
A Palace of Wax
The Grass Is Really Like Me
Who Am I?
Nightmare
Censorship
Talking to Myself
Anticlockwise
To the Masters of Countries with a Cold Climate
Fahmida Riaz
Stoning
Surah I Yaaseen
O God of Heaven and Earth
Come, Give Me Your Hand
To Auden
Virgin
The Interrogator
Search Warrant
Chadur and Diwari
She Is a Women Impure 97
Akleema
The Laughter of a Woman
Sara Shagufta
Woman and Salt |
| Price. Qualification | 70/- |
| Classification Number | 891.43916 |
| Key Words | Women ; Gifted ; Sinful |