Anita Weiss
Professor, International Studies
Phone: (541) 346-3245
Email: aweiss@uoregon.edu
Anita Weiss specializes in Pakistan, South Asia and comparative Muslim societies. Her recent books include Power and Civil Society in Pakistan (2001), which she co-edited with S. Zulfiqar Gilani and the 2nd edition of Walls within Walls: Life Histories of Working Women in the Old City of Lahore (2002). Her recent articles include: “A Provincial Islamist Victory in NWFP, Pakistan: The Social Reform Agenda of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal” in Asian Islam in the 21st Century, (in press); “Interpreting Women's Rights: The Dilemma Over Eliminating Discrimination Against Women in Pakistan” in Globalization, Gender, and Social Change in the 21st Century: A Special Issue of International Sociology, (2003); “Social Development, the Empowerment of Women and the Expansion of Civil Society: Alternative Ways out of the Debt and Poverty Trap” in Pakistan Development Review: an International Journal of Development Economics, (2003). She is currently working on a project analyzing the ways the state in Pakistan, Tunisia and Malaysia are responding to the requirements of CEDAW, which each has ratified. Dr. Weiss is writing a book about her research entitled Interpreting Islam, Modernity and Women’s Rights: Implementing CEDAW in Pakistan, Tunisia and Malaysia (tentative title). She has a long-standing involvement with the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, on which she serves as the Institutional Trustee from the University of Oregon.
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