Gender and citizenship in the information society : a perspective from Pakistan
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2011
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IT for Change, Bengaluru, IN
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This think-piece focuses on Pakistan, where ICTs offer the possibility of a breakthrough for women's citizenship, through altering the existing private-public nexus. Access to ICTs creates a tantalizing possibility of by-passing mechanisms of patrol and control exercised by male patriarchs, especially within the family, to offer access to seemingly infinite informational and communication resources, thereby readjusting spatial frontiers. However, merely having access to information, or self-expression, is insufficient to reorient people’s individual and collective sense of self and their relationship with the state. For example, in concepts and practices of citizenship, what enters the breach of private-public frontiers may be deeply misogynistic.
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP, INTERSECTIONALITY, ACCESS TO INFORMATION, GENDER DISCRIMINATION, INFORMATION SOCIETY, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT), RADIO, DIGITAL DIVIDE, GENDER ROLES, EXTREMISM, ISLAM, MASS MEDIA, CENSORSHIP, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, PAKISTAN, SOUTH ASIA