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Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan / Julie Billaud.

By: Series: Ethnography of political violencePublisher: Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Description: viii, 244 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780812246964 (alk. paper)
  • 0812246969 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 1735.6 .B55 2015
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Status Barcode
Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Non-fiction Main Collection HQ 1735.6 .B55 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5126730

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.

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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