Kabul Carnival : : Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan / / Julie Billaud.
After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule was widely publicized in the United States as one of the humanitarian issues justifying intervention. Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects fo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ethnography of Political Violence
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 20 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: "If Only You Were Born a Boy"
- Introduction: Carnival of (Post)War
- Part I. Phantom State Building
- Chapter 1. Queen Soraya's Portrait
- Chapter 2. National Women's Machinery: Coaching Lives in the Ministry of Women's Aff airs
- Chapter 3. Public and Private Faces of Gender (In)Justice
- Part II. Bodies of Resistance
- Chapter 4. Moral Panics, Indian Soaps, and Cosmetics: Writing the Nation on Women's Bodies
- Chapter 5. Strategic Decoration: Dissimulation, Performance, and Agency in an Islamic Public Space
- Chapter 6. Poetic Jihad: Narratives of Martyrdom, Suicide, and Suffering Among Afghan Women
- Conclusion: The Carnival Continues
- Chronology
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments