The pitfalls of protection : gender, violence, and power in Afghanistan / Torunn Wimpelmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wimpelmann, Torunn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Women.

Women's rights--Afghanistan--21st century.

Women's rights.

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

Sex crimes--Afghanistan--21st century.

Sex crimes.

Politics and government.

Women--Violence against.

Social conditions.

Afghanistan--Politics and government--21st century.

Afghanistan.

Women--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 215 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Politics of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. The author finds that aid flows and geopolitics have served as both opportunities and obstacles to feminist politics in Afghanistan. Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, the book examines both the achievements and the limits of this strategy."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the politics of violence against women

Part I. Legal regimes. Intrusions, invasions and interventions : histories of gender, justice and governance in Afghanistan. "Good women have no need for this law" : the battles over the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW).

Part II. New protection mechanisms. Brokers of justice : the special prosecution unit for crimes of violence against women in Kabul. With a little help from the war on terror : the women's shelters

Part III. Individual cases. Runaway women. Upholding citizen honor? : Rape in the courts and beyond

Conclusions : protection at a price?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Wimpelmann, Torunn. Pitfalls of protection.

ISBN:

9780520293199

0520293193

9780520293182

0520293185

OCLC:

962552780