Pakistan, 15 January 1950. Impeccably dressed, Zarina is going out to celebrate the wedding of her partner-in-gossip-crime, Fizza. Her busy life makes her feel anxious. The wrongdoings of the home helpers and her parents’ constant bickering fill her family life. Fashion magazines, get-togethers at the association she has just joined, and ladies’ glamorous parties are her only antidotes to stress.

This article explores the history of Zarina and her fellow upper class women's emotions, everyday lives, and daily perception of religious and socio-political ideas of change in Pakistan's momentous formative years (1947–1962). By relying on Francis Robinson's research on religious change, self, and the fashioning of Muslim identity, it provides the first historical ethnography of how upper class women in Pakistan understood and experienced socio-political change through the transformation of their emotions, religious views, lifestyle, and behaviour.

Drawing on material and visual culture and a rich selection of newspaper clippings and government records, this article lifts the curtain on the material and immaterial ‘stuff’ of women's dreams, taste in fashion, private lives, and political and religious ideas. Finally, it illuminates how women and their gendered agency became the key ‘sites’ for a new and, at times, surprising Islamic revival.

巴基斯坦，1950 年 1 月 15 日。扎里娜 (Zarina) 衣着无可挑剔，准备出去庆祝她的八卦犯罪同伙菲扎 (Fizza) 的婚礼。忙碌的生活让她感到焦虑。家庭帮工的不当行为和父母不断的争吵充斥着她的家庭生活。时尚杂志、刚刚加入的协会的聚会以及女士们的迷人派对是她缓解压力的唯一解药。

本文探讨了扎里娜和她的上层阶级女性同胞的情感、日常生活，以及巴基斯坦重要的形成时期（1947-1962）中宗教和社会政治观念变化的日常感知。通过弗朗西斯·罗宾逊对宗教变迁、自我和穆斯林身份塑造的研究，它提供了第一个历史民族志，讲述了巴基斯坦上层阶级女性如何通过情感、宗教观点、生活方式的转变来理解和经历社会政治变迁。和行为。

本文利用物质和视觉文化以及丰富的剪报和政府记录，揭开了女性梦想、时尚品味、私人生活以及政治和宗教观念的物质和非物质“东西”的帷幕。最后，它阐明了女性及其性别机构如何成为新的、有时令人惊讶的伊斯兰复兴的关键“场所”。