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Pakistan's police have historically displayed significant apathy towards recruiting women, considering them unsuitable for this profession
. The social stigma of working in a notorious, male-dominated organization has also prevented many women from joining in the past. Today, female police officers comprise just over 3% of the Pakistani police. This book is the first to examine their experiences within it. It draws on extensive ethnographic research on female police officers of all ranks in cities across Pakistan to illustrate the diversity of their recruitment, roles, experiences, and career prospects across rank, cadre, and region. It also demonstrates how female officers are combatting patriarchal challenges to make greater inroads into a masculine terrain, taking on diverse roles, and playing an increasingly important role in supporting women's access to justice, and why these changes cannot be conflated with the idea that these will automatically and radically transform the organization itself.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Policing: An Historical, Cultural Product
Chapter 2. “I am very happy!” Knowledge Production in a Hierarchical Field
PART TWO: PEOPLE, PLACES
Chapter 3. An Unequal Playing Field: The Police as a Gendered Organisation
Chapter 4. Patriarchal Social Landscapes: The Family and Community
Chapter 5. Privileges, Possibilities and Differentials: Female Officers in Senior Ranks
Chapter 6. “Woman Thaanas”: An Ambiguous Status
PART THREE: ORGANISATIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS AND ENTANGLEMENTS
Chapter 7. “Culture bara heavy hai” (The culture is very strong): Gender and Police Corruption
Chapter 8. Police Violence: Organisational Logics, Constraints and Moral Subjectivities
Chapter 9. Continuity and Change: The Complexity of Gender Progress
Product details
| Published | Oct 30 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9780755657711 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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