The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan / / Torunn Wimpelmann
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| Autore: |
Wimpelmann Torunn
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| Titolo: |
The Pitfalls of Protection : Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan / / Torunn Wimpelmann
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| Pubblicazione: | Oakland, California, : University of California Press, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (230) |
| Disciplina: | 305.409581/0905 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex crimes - Afghanistan - 21st century |
| Women - Violence against - Afghanistan - 21st century | |
| Women's rights - Afghanistan - 21st century | |
| Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Afghanistan Politics and government 21st century |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato: | afghanistan |
| contemporary | |
| court case | |
| female issues | |
| feminist studies | |
| feminist | |
| gender inequality | |
| gender | |
| global | |
| government | |
| injustice | |
| international | |
| justice system | |
| justice | |
| legal issues | |
| middle east | |
| modern world | |
| politics | |
| protection | |
| rape | |
| runaway | |
| sexual violence | |
| violence against women | |
| violence | |
| war on terror | |
| women in afghanistan | |
| womens issues | |
| womens shelters | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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?. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Pitfalls of Protection |
| ISBN: | 0-520-96639-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996333147203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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