Pious peripheries : runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan / Sonia Ahsan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahsan, Sonia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Runaway women--Afghanistan--Social conditions.

Runaway women.

Women, Pushtun--Afghanistan--Social conditions.

Women, Pushtun.

Muslim women--Afghanistan--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Women--Afghanistan--Conduct of life.

Women.

Women--Religious aspects--Islam.

Promiscuity--Afghanistan.

Promiscuity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo—and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter One. The Shelter

Chapter Two. Portraits of Pain

Chapter Three. Poetic Risk

Chapter Four. Taliban’s Women

Chapter Five. Pedagogies of Womanhood

Chapter Six. Subject of Honor

Conclusion. Toward Promiscuous Futures

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Ahsan, Sonia (Anthropologist). Pious peripheries

ISBN:

9781503614727

1503614727

OCLC:

1243535050