War, violence and women's agency in Pakistan : the case of Swat / Rehana Wagha.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

©2024

132 pages ; 25 cm.

"War, Violence and Women's Agency in Pakistan investigates the prominent features of gender ideology in the Swat region, Pakistan and how they influence the norms and forms of women's agency during conflict. After 9/11, the War on Terror brought a new wave of anarchy, extremism, and violence to the valley of Swat. This book investigates the socio-political structures in the region and examines their impact on women's political behaviour. The author asks how these patriarchal socio-political structures have contributed to the formation of women's subjectivities, their ability to subvert and resist patriarchal regimes of oppression. She examines how women experienced militancy, what led them to support or resist the Taliban or how they coped with the everyday violence; displacement and resettlement between the period from 2005 and 2010. Multidisciplinary in its approach, the book analyses the norms and forms of women's agency under the post-modern structure and agency framework of feminist political theory, which views structure and agency as co-constituted and mutually dependent. Focusing on women's narratives, norms and forms of their behaviour from a woman's perspective, this book is a welcome addition to the analysis of the violence in the Swat region, Pakistan. It will be of interest to scholars of Gender Studies, War and Conflict Studies and South Asian Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Online version: Wagha, Rehana. War, violence and women's agency in Pakistan Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023

English

May 20, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.