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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Billaud, Julie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Public spaces.
Postwar reconstruction.
Nationalism and feminism > Religious aspects > Islam.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Femmes > Afghānistān > Conditions sociales > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Nationalisme et feminisme > Aspect religieux > Islam > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Reconstruction d'apres-guerre > Afghānistān.
Espaces publics > Afghānistān > Histoire > 21e siecle.
Women > Afghanistan > Social conditions > History > 21st century.
Nationalism and feminism > Religious aspects > Islam > History > 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction > Afghanistan.
Public spaces > Afghanistan > History > 21st century.
Violence against women > Afghanistan > History > 21st century.
Afghanistan.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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