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001 2014027339
003 DLC
005 20150910201520.0
008 141008s2015 mau 000 0ceng
010 $a 2014027339
020 $a9780807003367 (hardback : acid-free paper)
020 $z9780807003374 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $aa-pk---
050 00 $aDS392.2.K3$bZ26 2015
082 00 $a954.91/830509252$aB$223
084 $aBIO022000$aREL037000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aZakaria, Rafia,$d1978-
245 14 $aThe upstairs wife :$ban intimate history of Pakistan /$cRafia Zakaria.
264 1 $aBoston :$bBeacon Press,$c2015.
300 $ax, 251 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 2 $a"A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly affected women. The political became personal for Zakaria's family when her Aunt Amina's husband did the unthinkable and took a second wife, a betrayal of kin and custom that shook the foundation of her family. The Upstairs Wife dissects the complex strands of Pakistani history, from the problematic legacies of colonialism to the beginnings of terrorist violence to increasing misogyny, interweaving them with the arc of Amina's life to reveal the personal costs behind ever-more restrictive religious edicts and cultural conventions. As Amina struggles to reconcile with a marriage and a life that had fallen below her expectations, we come to know the dreams and aspirations of the people of Karachi and the challenges of loving it not as an imagined city of Muslim fulfillment but as a real city of contradictions and challenges"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 0 $aPrologue -- The Return -- Birth of a Nation -- The Scent of Other Cities -- A Suburban Wedding -- Half a Wife -- The Woman in Charge -- The Graveyards of Karachi -- Loving and Leaving -- A Return to the Original -- Epilogue.
600 10 $aZakaria, Rafia,$d1978-$xFamily.
651 0 $aKarachi (Pakistan)$vBiography.
650 0 $aAunts$zPakistan$zKarachi$vBiography.
650 0 $aMuslim women$zPakistan$zKarachi$vBiography.
650 0 $aPolygamy$xSocial aspects$zPakistan$zKarachi.
650 0 $aWomen$zPakistan$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aMisogyny$zPakistan.
651 0 $aPakistan$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aPakistan$xHistory.
651 0 $aPakistan$xReligious life and customs.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aRELIGION / Islam / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$u9780807003367.jpg