00000nam##2200000#a#4500045311SLIM2120260613110200.0260613s 0000 00eng d891.43916Ahmad Rukhsana AhmadWe Sinful WomenAhmad Rukhsana AhmadDelhi Rupa & Co 1990193pWe 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 SaltHere 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. WomenGiftedSinfulAhmad Rukhsana AhmadG05283G0528301PHSt. Andrew's College ofArts, Science and CommerceMGENGRM045311Y