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The study contributes to the body of literature related to the women issues as it
highlights the patriarchal structures that caused to raise a voice for the feminist
debates in Pakistan. The research study focuses on the evolution of the women
rights movements in Pakistan. It also highlights the role of women rights activists
and how the priority areas of feminist activists have changed in the local context
with the advent of internationalization of feminist movement. The impact of
feminist movement on the legal frame work has also been deliberated upon. The
paper explains the feminism with reference to theory to transnational feminism in
the Pakistani context. The study concluded that feminism evolved as movement of
struggle for the equal social, political, economic and legal rights for women as
men in Pakistan. Many women struggled for the equal rights of women. The
women faced the discriminatory legislative policies, Hudood ordinance, in
Pakistan. However, the role of activists was remarkable to change the scenario to
get the legal rights for women in Pakistan.
Sumera Batool, Feroza Batool, Anjum Zia, Robina Saeed. (2018) The struggle for women rights: A study of emergence of feminism in Pakistan, (1947 to 2010), Journal of the Punjab University Historical Society, Volume 31, issue 1.
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