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Afshan Jafar addresses a question of enormous importance to scholars of women's studies and South Asia: how have women's NGOs in Pakistan negotiated a hostile, conservative political environment? She reveals the complex strategies they have adopted toward the state, religious fundamentalists, and market forces. Read this book to gain a nuanced, informed, and sympathetic understanding of the complex dilemmas and challenges that women's groups in Pakistan confront.--Amrita Basu, Paino Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College In this brilliant and insightful book, Afshan Jafar raises many questions about the roles of women's NGOs in Pakistan. As she so effectively argues, it is crucial not to celebrate or castigate women's NGOs, but instead to show their historical context and their relations to the state, the economy, civil society, and larger cultural politics. By doing just this in her book, Jafar provides an important lens into the way women's NGOs navigate between feminist ideals and on-the-ground realities. --Joya Misra, Professor of Sociology & Public Policy, University of Massachusetts<br>A very interesting and timely book. The issue of women's NGOs is an important topic and an examination of their challenges and prospects are very important in the post-colonial conditions in which many of these countries find themselves. This is especially important for Pakistan, which is involved in the war on terror and is inextricably involved with the US nation-building efforts in neighboring Afghanistan. Given the rise and challenge of local Islamist militants in Pakistan, the role and significance of these NGOs become extremely important for development studies. The first book on women's NGOs in Pakistan, it will be of use for upper-level undergraduate and graduate classes.--Ali Akbar Mahdi, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan University

Afshan Jafar addresses a question of enormous importance to scholars of women's studies and South Asia: how have women's NGOs in Pakistan negotiated a hostile, conservative political environment? She reveals the complex strategies they have adopted toward the state, religious fundamentalists, and market forces. Read this book to gain a nuanced, informed, and sympathetic understanding of the complex dilemmas and challenges that women's groups in Pakistan confront.--Amrita Basu, Paino Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies, Amherst College In this brilliant and insightful book, Afshan Jafar raises many questions about the roles of women's NGOs in Pakistan. As she so effectively argues, it is crucial not to celebrate or castigate women's NGOs, but instead to show their historical context and their relations to the state, the economy, civil society, and larger cultural politics. By doing just this in her book, Jafar provides an important lens into the way women's NGO

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AFSHAN JAFAR Assistant Professor of Sociology at Connecticut College, USA. 

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