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Expressions of modernity in rural Pakistan : searching for emic perspectives

This dissertation examines women's lives in a rapidly urbanizing rural community in Southern Pakistan to understand their responses to modernity in developing societies. Applying a mixed-methods approach, socio-demographic data is collected and contrasted with oral history and personal narratives to analyze social change through women's access to education and reproductive health care in the village. The results are framed within a post-modern and post-colonial feminist anthropological discourse to reveal that Sheherpind represents a model of 'multiple modernities' where women's agency and progress could only be contextualized in non-western, local cultural perspectives. Emerging trends in the village are evaluated for their 'Applied' significance to underscore areas of local, national and transnational policy
significance. / Graduation date: 2013

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/30473
Date12 June 2012
CreatorsNiazi, Amarah, 1981-
ContributorsKhanna, Sunil
Source SetsOregon State University
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis/Dissertation

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