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equal rights, but also to challenge the private spheres of lives where patriarchy
prevails.
The present fourth wave, signified a tectonic change in Pakistan's feminist
landscape, ushering in an altogether new era in feminist efforts by confronting and
deconstructing the family, community, and society's sacred private spheres. Non-
binary people, non-reproductive, and alternative sexual expression were formerly
marginalised ideas that became mainstreamed.
The new wave feminists dismantled the illusory dichotomies of the public/private,
productive/reproductive, and personal/political realms by reclaiming public places
and placing the personal into the heart of the political.
Fourth wave feminism strives to break the artificial public-private binary built by
patriarchy to organise production and reproduction in different domains, whereas
the new wave of feminism in various hues remained focused on the public and
politico-legal arena.
On the one hand, young feminists reject established private-sector conventions,
while on the other, they wish to retake their pub spaces.