ISBN:
9780812291148
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (257 pages)
Series Statement:
The Ethnography of Political Violence Ser.
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DDC:
305.409581
Keywords:
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Nationalism and feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 21st century
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Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan
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Public spaces -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
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Violence against women -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
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Women ; Afghanistan ; Social conditions ; 21st century..
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Nationalism and feminism ; Religious aspects ; Islam ; History ; 21st century..
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Postwar reconstruction ; Afghanistan..
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Public spaces ; Afghanistan ; History ; 21st century..
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Violence against women ; Afghanistan ; History ; 21st century
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Abstract:
Offering one of the first long-term on-the-ground ethnographies of Afghanistan since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects designed for Afghan women and imposed by the international community.
Abstract:
Cover -- Kabul Carnival -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue: "If Only You Were Born a Boy" -- Introduction: Carnival of (Post)War -- PART I. PHANTOM STATE BUILDING -- Chapter 1. Queen Soraya's Portrait -- Chapter 2. National Women's Machinery: Coaching Lives in the Ministry of Women's Affairs -- Chapter 3. Public and Private Faces of Gender (In)Justice -- PART II. BODIES OF RESISTANCE -- Chapter 4. Moral Panics, Indian Soaps, and Cosmetics: Writing the Nation on Women's Bodies -- Chapter 5. Strategic Decoration: Dissimulation, Performance, and Agency in an Islamic Public Space -- Chapter 6. Poetic Jihad: Narratives of Martyrdom, Suicide, and Suffering Among Afghan Women -- Conclusion: The Carnival Continues -- Chronology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291148
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https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291148
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