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In this warm and intimate memoir, Humaira Awais Shahid tells her inspiring story. A bookish young woman who identified with the independent-minded heroines of Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf, she never dreamed that love would lead her to become the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women's rights in Pakistan. After falling for the son of a prominent newspaper family, Shahid joined the family business. She soon revamped the insipid "women's pages" of one of Pakistan's leading newspapers into a crusading force for exposing the abuses suffered by Pakistani women and girls.…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2014W. W. NORTON & COMPANY · 294 pages · 9780393081480
- Other · English · 2014Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 304 pages · 9780393083910
Women social reformersWomen's rightsSocial conditionsWomen and religionBiographyWomenWomen, social conditionsPakistan, biography