We are All Revolutionaries Here: Militarism, Political Islam and Gender in Pakistan Hardcover 9386062488 9789386062482 Aneela Zeb Babar

• Format: Hardcover
• Author: Aneela Zeb Babar
• ISBN10: 9386062488
• ISBN13: 9789386062482

What might link a group of middle-class Pakistani women sipping coffee demurely in a living room, with the fiery young women in black burqas threatening shopkeepers in Islamabad?

When and how do an adolescent girls aspirations translate into the maturing of a social and political revolution in urban Pakistan?

Will this woman find a resolution to her angst or, like Rosie the Riveter, retreat to her cloister?

Does Bhuttos death mark the death knell of secular female political participation in Pakistan? The individuals in these pages span over two decades 1988-2008 of Pakistans tryst with a difficult history, trying to decipher the convoluted equation of militarism, political Islam and gender politics.