South Asia Bulletin, a semi-annual journal based at the University at Albany, has just published a special issue on Pakistan with of focus section on "Issues in the Women's Movement in Pakistan" (volume 10, number 2). Included are three lengthy studies on women's economic position and the politics of the women's movement: "The Duality in Female Employment in Pakistan," by Shahnaz Kazi and Bilquees Raza; "The Rise of the Religious Right and Its Impact on Women," by Farida Shaheed and Khawar Mumtaz; and "Islam, Feminism and the Women's Movement is Pakistan, 1981-1991," by Fauzia Gardezi. In addition, the text of the Shariat Act, which weeks to "Islamize" politics and women's legal rights, is reprinted along with a comprehensive study of this bill by activists in Pakistan. The documents section includes a report on a women workers' strike in the garment export-processing zone of Bangladesh.
South Asia Bulletin was founded and is co-edited by Sucheta Mazumdar, the new Associate Director of IROW. Not surprisingly, the journal regularly contains articles on the struggles of women is South Asia, which includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Volume 1, number 1 (1981) and volume 6, number 1 (1986) were special issues devoted to women and development. Volume 6 is still available. Volume 11, to be published at the end of 1991, will contain, among other articles: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi on Persian and Indian perceptions of Western women (and the question of Occidentalism), Meera Nanda on "Is Western Science Patriarchal?" and Arati Rao on women's literature in India.
For the table of contents of past issues or subscription information write to: The Editors, South Asia Bulletin, Department of History, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York 12222.