Development Theory and Gendered Approach to Development: A Review in the Third World Perspective
Influenced mainly by liberal and socialist feminists, several gendered approaches to development have emerged, in part, as critiques of the major theoretical approaches to development – modernisation theory, underdevelopment and dependency theory, and neo-liberalism – in the Third World countries since the 1950s. A major policy highlight of this has been the predominance of ‘efficiency […]
People often consider feminism to be a modern idea and assume that women of the past simply accepted the life carved out for them. In fact, women’s rights have been at the forefront of political and social debate for centuries. Written over 200 years ago, The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges started […]
This book includes a diversity of women’s lived experiences and provides framing feminist concepts such as intersectionality. It strives to have students consider privilege, systems of oppression, and diversity of experience.
This is a historical account of feminism that looks at the roots of feminism, voting rights, and the liberation of the sixties, and analyzes the current situation of women across Europe, in the United States, and elsewhere in the world, particularly the Third World countries.
‘A country of such striking natural beauty must, surely, at some period of its history have produced refined and noble people,’ writes Sir Francis Young husband in his History of Kashmir. So indeed, and during my own journey through Kashmir’s contemporary history, I have been privileged to make contact with some of them. In the […]
TREK to Pakistan” is a book penned by Ahmed Saeed in collaboration with K.H Mansoor, published in 2019. Ahmed Saeed, a scholar who earned his master’s degree in political science and history, held significant academic positions, including Chairmanship at the Department of History in Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College, Lahore, and Islamia College, Lahore. Notably, Saeed […]
THIS book deals with Muslim nationalism in Imperial India in its four aspects. The first stage in the growth of a national ism is the evolution of a group into a nation. This is mainly an historical development and occurs on the time-le”\Tel. Chapters I, 2, and 3 describe how the Indian Muslims came to […]
Since its hasty and messy creation in 1947, Pakistan has repeatedly been in the world news. It has experienced more turbulent internal events and been involved in more dramatic external ventures than most countries. These include partition, wars, coups, the Afghan resistance, internal dissension, and terrorism, as well as a recent deadly earthquake. Nevertheless, it […]