Buch
Monografie
Land of the unconquerable : the lives of contemporary Afghan women
Verfasst von:
Heath, Jennifer
Berkeley [u. a.]:
Univ. of California Press
,
2011
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393 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Heath, Jennifer |
| Jahr: | 2011 |
| ISBN: | 0520261852 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Land of the Unconquerable offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists - most with extended experience inside Afghanistan - examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women’s empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan’s women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future. Contents: Part I. Perceptions and Realities 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women’s Status (Shireen Khan Burki) 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereotypes, and Afghan Women’s Agency (Margaret A. Mills) 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women’s Resilience (Anne E. Brodsky) 4. Don’t Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women (Wahid Omar) 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube (Dinah Zeiger) Part II. A Woman’s Place 6. Women’s Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests?( Anna Larson) 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts (Massouda Jalal, Malalai Joya, Fawzia Koofi, and Azita Rafat) 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison (Lizette Potgieter) 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul (Alisa Tang) 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan (Deborah J. Smith) Part III. To Be Whole in Body and Mind 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan (Sima Samar) 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife’s Experiences (Pamela Chandler) 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades (Mary MacMakin) 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security (Elizabeth Stites) 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health (Nahid Aziz) Part IV. Making the Rubble Bloom 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women (Rachel Lehr) 17. Rural Women’s Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy (Jo Grace and Adam Pain) 18. Chadari Politics: Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice (Lina Abirafeh) 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women’s Empowerment (Ashraf Zahedi) Part V. “Don’t Eclipse My Happy New Moon” 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success (Sakena Yacoobi) 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media (Aunohita Mojumdar) 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts (Lauryn Oates) 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan’s Women Poets (Zuzanna Olszewska) Epilogue: Great Expectations 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans (Amina Kator) | |
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| Literaturverz. S. 367 - 370 | |
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