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Time, Agency, and Marriage in Pakistan by Lesley Yang is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document provides an abstract for a paper about how religious differences are negotiated over time within marriages in urban Pakistan. The author conducted interviews with middle-class women in Lahore who had married men with different religious aspirations. Some found that over time, their husbands became more religiously observant, though the women did not take full credit and cited concepts like "sabar" (forbearance) and the transformative effects of time. The author argues that agency depends on on

Author

Lesley Yang

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