Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.48/891593
• Soggetto topico: Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century; Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century; Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan
• Soggetto non controllato: afghan 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
• Persona (resp. second.): HeathJennifer; ZahediAshraf <1947->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Reaching 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Land of the Unconquerable
• ISBN: 1-283-27805-7; 9786613278050; 0-520-94899-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791884703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II