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We are all revolutionaries here : militarism, political Islam and gender in Pakistan

What might link a group of middle-class Pakistani women sipping coffee demurely in a living room, with the fiery young women in black burqas threatening shopkeepers in Islamabad? When and how do an adolescent girl’s aspirations translate into the maturing of a social and political revolution in urb...

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Main Author: Babar, Aneela Zeb
Format: Printed Book
Published: London Sage 2017
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