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Friday, July 17, 2009 Working women in Pakistan Book review of Taboo and Between Chaddor and the Market by Danish Iqbal Significant debates have occurred detailing the profession(s) that women chose (or not) and the effects that such choice have on the larger Pakistani society, both in terms of gender roles as well as economic market studies. Oxford University Press seems to have made considerable strides in providing venues for such literature in the last few years. The two books reviewed here are amongst such works published by OUP Karachi. Both books are about women’s professional careers: Fouzia Saeed’s book Taboo (translated into Urdu as 'Klunk' ), analyzes “the phenomenon of prostitution (not just as a sex worker but as a cultural professional) ...through it have looked at Pakistani society and its gender roles” (xix: 2001), while Mirza’s work engages with data “engendering the embeddedness of market in society, by analyzing the interfaces which emerge into women’s life w...