ISBN:
9781503614703
,
9781503614710
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 239 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ahsan-Tirmizi, Sonia Pious peripheries
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ahsan-Tirmizi, Sonia Pious Peripheries
DDC:
305.4209581
Keywords:
Runaway women Social conditions
;
Women, Pushtun Social conditions
;
Muslim women Social conditions
;
Women Conduct of life
;
Women Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Promiscuity
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Afghanistan
;
Paschtunen
;
Frau
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Promiskuität
Abstract:
The shelter -- Portraits of pain -- Poetic risk -- Taliban's women -- Pedagogies of womanhood -- Subject of honor
Abstract:
"Women in Afghanistan have few resources once they are marked as promiscuous, licentious, or shameless, which can happen for reasons that have little to do with sex or sexuality. Based on 24-months of fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, Sonia Ahsan provides readers with a social and textual ethnography of the category of sexual promiscuity in Afghanistan. This is the first ethnography of Pashtun women written by a Pashtun woman"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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