Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Billaud, Julie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Colección:Ethnography of political violence.
Temas:
2000-2099
Violence against women > Afghanistan > History > 21st century.
Public spaces > Afghanistan > History > 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction > Afghanistan.
Nationalism and feminism > Religious aspects > Islam > History > 21st century.
Women > Afghanistan > Social conditions > History > 21st century.
Espaces publics > Afghānistān > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Reconstruction d'après-guerre > Afghānistān.
Nationalisme et féminisme > Aspect religieux > Islam > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Femmes > Afghānistān > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Femmes > Afghānistān > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Nationalism and feminism > Religious aspects > Islam
Postwar reconstruction
Public spaces
Women > Social conditions
Afghanistan
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: "If only you were born a boy"
  • Introduction: Carnival of (post)war
  • Phantom State building. Queen Soraya's portrait
  • National women's machinery: coaching lives in the Ministry of Women's Affairs
  • Public and private faces of gender (in)justice
  • Bodies of resistance. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics: writing the nation on women's bodies
  • Strategic decoration: dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space
  • Poetic jihad: narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffereing among Afghan women
  • Conclusion: the carnival continues.

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