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Author:
Shahid, Humaira Awais.
Title:
Devotion and defiance : my journey in love, faith and politics / Humaira Awais Shahid, with Kelly Horan.
Edition:
First Edition.
Publisher:
W. W. Norton and Company,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
294 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Shahid, Humaira Awais.
Women--Pakistan--Social conditions.
Women's rights--Pakistan.
Women social reformers--Pakistan--Biography.
Women and religion--Pakistan--Biography.
Notes:
Includes index.
Contents:
Before and after -- Finding Ednan -- Trials -- Coming home -- Righting the women's pages -- Two Pakistans -- Bearing witness -- A raging sea -- Taking flight -- Let us do our job -- Waiting for happy -- Looking for Mr. Pakistan -- The most unmanageable woman in Pakistan -- Devotion and defiance.
Summary:
A prominent Muslim woman activist describes how she transformed the "women's section" of a local newspaper to reveal the true lives of Pakistani women and became a passionate advocate for women's rights, ultimately winning a seat on the Provincial Assembly.
ISBN:
0393081486 (hbk.)
9780393081480 (hbk.)
LCCN:
2013046067
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)
YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)
BVPE851 -- Nevada Public Library (Nevada)

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