Aspects of Women and Development,

Khan, N.S., Saigol, R. and Zia, A.S. (eds)
ASR publications, 1995.

Sections: 1. Aspects of Development, 2. Two Community Projects

This book presents reflections and ideas on certain basic issues of development such as the economy, education, the environment, population and human rights. In Pakistan, the discourse on development has been apolitical as well as a theoretical. Development has been viewed in narrow economistic terms, and its complex relationship with the state and ideology has not been examined. An alternative view of development that focuses on the interlinkages between politics, ideology and development needs to be evolved.
This volume is a step in this direction, although only a few of the papers included in this collection view development holistically as the moral, social, emotional, aesthetics and creative flowering of people. However, by starting a debate on these issues, the authors hope that a more humane view of development will emerge which takes into account the dominant global structures of class and patriarchy. These structures contradict human rights as well as the development of creative human potential. It is also important to note the integral relationship between development and movements for social change. Without political awareness and action, change cannot occur.
This book is divided into two sections. The first covers certain aspects of development and the second describes two case studies done within the traditional paradigm.

Key words: Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Population, and Human rights.