![]() ![]() ![]() In this compact novel, Shah accelerates the prevailing patriarchal logics of Pakistani society, which she sees as treating women as “second class citizens,” to confront the persistence of gender-based oppression with feminist protest and rage.Īn outspoken advocate for women’s rights in South Asia, Shah has twice won the AGAHI award, her native Pakistan's award for excellence in journalism, with her work regularly featuring in publications such as The Guardian, The Independent and The New York Times. ![]() A time in which female bodies are farmed, treated as fertile ground which need only be properly tilled to yield lost crops, to recover prematurely felled populations: this body agriculture, with its taming and wielding of the means of reproduction, is the biofuel of Bina Shah’s dictatorial Green City in Before She Sleeps. ![]()
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