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Freedom on the frontlines : Afghan women and the fallacy of liberation / Lina AbiRafeh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abirafeh, Lina, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--Political activity.
- Women's rights.
- Afghanistan.
- Social conditions.
- Women's rights--Afghanistan.
- Women--Political activity--Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Afghan women were at the forefront of global agendas in late 2001, fueled by a mix of media coverage, humanitarian intervention and military operations. Calls for "liberating" Afghan women were widespread. Women's roles in Afghanistan have long been politically divisive, marked by struggles between modernization and tradition. Women, politics, and the state have always been intertwined in Afghanistan, and conflicts have been fueled by attempts to challenge or change women's status. It may appear that we have come full circle twenty years later, in late 2021, when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban once more. Women's rights in Afghanistan have been stripped away, and any gains--however tenuous--now appear lost. Today, the country navigates both a humanitarian and a human rights crisis. This book measures the rhetoric of liberation and the physical and ideological occupations of Afghanistan over the twenty-year period from 2001 through 2021 through the voices, perspectives, and experiences of those who are implicated in this reality--Afghan women.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Story of "Liberation" for Afghan Women
- Chapter 2. Where We Fit Is Where We Fight
- Chapter 3. The Honor of the Nation
- Chapter 4. Aid as Liberation?
- Chapter 5. Democracy as Liberation?
- Chapter 6. War Has Never Been Over for Them
- Chapter 7. At the Feminist Interface
- Chapter 8. Women's Agency and Resistance
- Chapter 9. Freedom Is Only Won from the Inside
- Dari Terminology
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Chapter Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin B. Cole Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781476647197
- 1476647194
- Publisher Number:
- 99990118930
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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