06305nam 22011415 450 991079188470332120231006175726.01-283-27805-797866132780500-520-94899-810.1525/9780520948990(CKB)2560000000058349(EBL)656355(SSID)ssj0000470764(PQKBManifestationID)11306022(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470764(PQKBWorkID)10416860(PQKB)10919613(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084537(DE-B1597)519971(OCoLC)707094368(DE-B1597)9780520948990(MiAaPQ)EBC656355(EXLCZ)99256000000005834920200424h20112011 fg engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLand of the Unconquerable The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women /Jennifer Heath, Ashraf ZahediBerkeley, California :University of California Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (409 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26185-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status --CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency --CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience --CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women --CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube --CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? --CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts --CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison --CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul --CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan --CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan --CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences --CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades --CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security --CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health --CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women --CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy --CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice --CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment --CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success --CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media --CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts --CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets --CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans --Selected Bibliography --About the Contributors --IndexReaching beyond sensational headlines, Land of the Unconquerable at last offers a three-dimensional portrait of Afghan women. In a series of wide-ranging, deeply reflective essays, accomplished scholars, humanitarian workers, politicians, and journalists-most with extended experience inside Afghanistan-examine the realities of life for women in both urban and rural settings. They address topics including food security, sex work, health, marriage, education, poetry, politics, prisoners, and community development. Eschewing stereotypes about the burqa, the contributors focus instead on women's empowerment and agency, and their struggles for peace and justice in the face of a brutal ongoing war. A fuller picture of Afghanistan's women past and present emerges, leading to social policy suggestions and pragmatic solutions for a peaceful future.Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st centuryWomen - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st centuryWomen -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryWomenSocial conditions21st centuryAfghanistanafghan women.afghan.afghanistan.agency.al qaeda.anthropology.burqa.community development.domesticity.education.empowerment.femininity.feminism.food security.gender studies.gender.health.islam.justice.marriage.middle east.muslim women.nonfiction.orientalism.peace.poetry.politics.prisoners.prostitution.religion.religious fundamentalism.religious women.rural.sex work.social policy.social science.sociology.urban.war on terror.war.women.womens studies.Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century.Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century.Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.WomenSocial conditions305.48/891593Heath Jenniferedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtZahedi Ashraf1947-edthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910791884703321Land of the Unconquerable3706659UNINA