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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Anita Weiss, âInterpreting Islam, Modernity, and Womenâs Rights in Pakistanâ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Description: Pakistan is often caricatured and stereotyped as a volatile nuclear country on the precipice of disaster. Such depictions are often especially acerbic when comes to the issue of Womenâs rights in the country. In her important new book, Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Womenâs Rights in Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Anita Weiss, Professor of International Studies at the University of Oregon, provides a much-needed corrective to such sensationalist stereotypes. By exploring how multiple state and non-state actors have engaged the question of gender and womenâs rights over time and space, Weiss demonstrates ways in which a diversity of voices...