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Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan / Julie Billaud.
Series: Ethnography of political violencePublisher: Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Description: viii, 244 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780812246964 (alk. paper)
- 0812246969 (alk. paper)
- Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century
- Nationalism and feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 21st century
- Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan
- Public spaces -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Women -- Violence against -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century
- Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- 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.
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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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