Imagined citizenship: Women, State and Politics in Pakistan in Urdu
Publication Author:
Farida Shaheed
Date:
2002
number of pages:
210 This is the Urdu version of the full Pakistan Country Report of the regional research study: Women and Governance in South Asia: Re-Imagining the State. The study aimed to understand the nature of, and impediments to, women's participation in political life and governance; to elicit women's vision(s) of what the state structure and political culture should be; and to identify their recommendations for refining and altering those processes for political participation that are currently inadequate to meet women's needs.
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