No Shame for the Sun: The Lives of Professional Pakistani Women

by Shahla Haeri

Book Overview

This groundbreaking work sheds new light on the status, conflicts, and social realities of educated Muslim women in Pakistan. Six candid interviews introduce readers to a class of professional Muslim women that is rarely, if ever, acknowledged in the West.

These women tell of conflicts and compromises with family, kin, and community, while facing violence, archaic marriage rules, and locally entrenched codes of conduct. With brave eloquence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815629605
• ISBN13: 9780815629603
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.8"