Abstract
Women are now seen more in spaces traditionally ascribed for men. There is similar trend in the domain of crime economy. This study problematizes the feminist understanding of women agency in such male dominated spaces, agreeing with Spivak‟s argument that agency of the subaltern/marginalized women is not complete rather is informed by patriarchal structures of the society. It also problematizes conservative notion of „doing gender‟, while the study observes that „smuggler‟ women are performing gender untraditionally in male spaces by feeding their families in the absence of their men. This ethnographic study takes up the case of women engaged in transportation of non-duty paid goods of everyday consumption in Peshawar and undertakes the examination of agency, deviance and patriarchal order in situated, complex, interactional networks constructing identity and subjectivity of difference.
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