Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies

This is to announce that the Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (1994-2023) has ceased its publication from July 01, 2023.
We thank our authors, readers, reviewers, members of the Editorial and the Advisory Boards for all the support that we received over the past several decades.

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...

We are happy to share the contents of vol 31, no,1 of 2023 of Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies (For abstarcts and papers, please visit our webpage:URL: http://www.pakistanwomenstudies.com. The authors and titles of their papers are as follows:
Nazia Salah ud Din,
Tahira Jabeen &
Uzma Ashiq Khan
Challenges Faced by Lady Health Workers in Performing Duties: A Case Study from Lahore 1-16
Muneer Abduroaf Divorce and Dissolution of Muslim Marriages: A Historical Analysis of the Position of a Muslim Wife Seeking Divorce in the South African Legal Context
17-31
Syed Hussain Ali, M. Ismail &
Muhammad Shahriyar Khan
Women’s Political Participation:
A Case Study from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
33-60
Falak Shad Memon Women’s Disaster Management Capacities: A Qualitative Study of Flood-affected Areas of Sindh, Pakistan
61-82
Amina Javed,
Rija Fatima &
Muhammad Sabboor Hussain Significance of Sociolinguistic Knowledge in Conducting Research: Issues and Implications for English Major Female University Students in Pakistan 83-94

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...

We are happy to share the contents of vol 31, no,1 of 2023 of Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies (For abstarcts and papers, please visit our webpage:URL: http://www.pakistanwomenstudies.com. The authors and titles of their papers are as follows:

Nazia Salah ud Din,
Tahira Jabeen &
Uzma Ashiq Khan
Challenges Faced by Lady Health Workers in Performing Duties: A Case Study from Lahore 1-16
Muneer Abduroaf Divorce and Dissolution of Muslim Marriages: A Historical Analysis of the Position of a Muslim Wife Seeking Divorce in the South African Legal Context
17-31
Syed Hussain Ali, M. Ismail &
Muhammad Shahriyar Khan
Women’s Political Participation:
A Case Study from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
33-60
Falak Shad Memon Women’s Disaster Management Capacities: A Qualitative Study of Flood-affected Areas of Sindh, Pakistan
61-82
Amina Javed,
Rija Fatima &
Muhammad Sabboor Hussain Significance of Sociolinguistic Knowledge in Conducting Research: Issues and Implications for English Major Female University Students in Pakistan 83-94

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...

We are now accepting papers for vol. 30, no. 1 of June 2023. For submission guidelines, visit our Web page or contact us at [email protected]

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We have uploaded all ten articles on our web page. Abstracts can be accessed free of cost. For further information, visit our website:

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...

Vol 29:2 of Dec. 2022 is now ready. This volume would not have been possible without the valuable support we received from our reviewers from Canada, Egypt, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the USA. We also thank our authors for sharing their research with our readers. As the titles show, this volume presents ten articles covering a variety of themes:
1. Nadia Agha, Rahim Dad Rind, & Tasleem Alam Abro (Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur): Economic Consequences of Covid-19 on Women Home-Based Workers in Rural Pakistan: The Narratives of Survival
2. Ashar Johnson Khokhar (Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore: An Imaginary World: Perceptions of Undergraduate Female Students of Female Characters in Chinese and Turkish TV Dramas
3. Sobia Mubarak (Government Post Graduate Islamia College (W), Lahore) & Naila Sahar (Forman Christian College (A Chartered University, Lahore): Women Colonized: Trafficking and Commodification of Women, Revisiting Shahid Nadeem’s Dukhini
4. Asfa Zia &Fatima Syeda (Forman Christian College (A Chartered University), Lahore): The Perversion of Desire and the Institution of Marriage in The Subcontinent: A Re-Reading of Homoeroticism in The Quilt by Ismat Chughtai
5. Huma Butt & Naima Zubair (International Islamic University, Islamabad): Pregnant Domestic Workers’ Antenatal Health Problems: An Exploratory Study of Islamabad, Pakistan
6. Rohma Saleem & Najia Asrar Zaidi (Balochistan University, Quetta): The Invisible and Silenced in Muslim Women’s Memoirs: An Interpretive Analysis
7. Saiqa Siddiq Khan (Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan), Saiyma Aslam (International Islamic University, Islamabad) & Ehsan Ullah Danish (Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan): Uprootings/Regroundings and Mestiza Consciousness in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
8. Muhammad Ayaz (Independent Scholar): Non-Provision of Right to Divorce Under Clause 18 of Marriage Contract: A Cause of Domestic Violence
9. Yash Singh Sisodiya (Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore (MP) India) & Vipul Bhargava (Independent Scholar): Gender-Based Violence during Covid-19 Pandemic in India: Literature Review
10. Mahaam Khan (GC Women University Sialkot): An Analysis of Social Judgement Based on the Views of Pakistani University Students about Females Riding Motorcycles

Call for Papers for Vol 29. 2 of Decmber2022

Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies (PJWS) is soliciting original academic papers on women and gender issues on a rolling basis. PJWS is an interdisciplinary bi-annual journal that publishes articles that engage our readers and academia worldwide in critical discourse and initiates informed inquiries on how to bring academic scholarship closer to the needs of women and society at large.
We encourage scholarly works from all disciplines. We aim to reinforce links that integrate and bring closer researchers and activists in their endeavour to address the challenges women face today.
Possible topics for submissions could include:
- Women, State policies, and their implementation
- Reproductive health of women
- representation of Women in Social/electronic Media and Literature
- Death or disability of family’s bread earner
- Poverty and Loss of jobs/ daily wages
- Rise in domestic violence
- Women and girls’ exploitation
- Increased household workload for women
- Impact of mothers’ illness/death on children
-Trafficking and prostitution
- Climate crisis, Environmental activism, and Gender Inequality
- Women, Feminism and decolonial praxis
- Challenging Patriarchy and male dominance
- Women Migrant workers
- Women’s History
-Women, spirituality, and religion
- Women’s issues and their solutions in the last 75 years in South Asia
Publications in which PJWS is indexed:
Alternative Press Index, EBSCO with Full Text, Feminist Academic Press Column, Index Islamicus, ProQuest with Full Text, Sociological Abstracts, Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts, Sociology of Education Abstracts, SocIndex with Full Text, Women’s Studies Abstracts.
For paper submission Guidelines, check our web page: http://www.pakistanwomenstudies.com. or email us: [email protected]

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...

On behalf of the Editorial and the Advisory Board, I am pleased to announce that the Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies has maintained its position in the HJRS for 2022-2023.
We now welcome new submissions for our next issue of December 2022. For submission guidelines, please visit our webpage:
http://www.pakistanwomenstudies.com.
For submissions:
[email protected]

Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan Pakistan Journal of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan (PJWS) is an academic bi-annual journal of the Pakistan Association for Women’s Studies (PAWS). PJWS was first published in 1994. As a refereed international interdisciplinary, PJWS aims at disseminating and sharing women’s studies research an...