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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Billaud, Julie, author.

Series:

Ethnography of political violence

The ethnography of political violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.

Women.

Nationalism and feminism--Religious aspects--Islam--History--21st century.

Nationalism and feminism.

Postwar reconstruction--Afghanistan.

Postwar reconstruction.

Women--Violence against.

History.

Public spaces.

Nationalism and feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Social conditions.

Afghanistan.

Public spaces--Afghanistan--History--21st century.

Women--Violence against--Afghanistan--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Gender politics in postwar Afghanistan

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780812246964

0812246969

OCLC:

893455589