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Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan / Julie Billaud.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: (The ethnography of political violence)Publication details: Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2015.Description: viii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780812246964
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ1735.6. B55 2015
Contents:
Contents: Prologue : “if only you were born a boy”—Introduction : carnival of (post) war—Part I : phantom state building—Chapter 1. Queen Soraya’s portrait—Chapter 2. National women’s machinery : coaching lives in the ministry of women’s affairs—Chapter 3. Public and private faces of gender (in) justice—Part II : Bodies of resistance—Chapter 4. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics : writing the nation on women’s bodies—Chapter 5. Strategic decoration : dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space—Chapter 6. Poetic jihad : narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffering among afghan women—Conclusion : the carnival continues—Chronology—Notes—Bibliography—Index—Acknowledgments.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University HQ1735.6.B55 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3ACKU000376821
Total holds: 0

“Includes bibliography”—(pages 227-240).

Contents: Prologue : “if only you were born a boy”—Introduction : carnival of (post) war—Part I : phantom state building—Chapter 1. Queen Soraya’s portrait—Chapter 2. National women’s machinery : coaching lives in the ministry of women’s affairs—Chapter 3. Public and private faces of gender (in) justice—Part II : Bodies of resistance—Chapter 4. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics : writing the nation on women’s bodies—Chapter 5. Strategic decoration : dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space—Chapter 6. Poetic jihad : narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffering among afghan women—Conclusion : the carnival continues—Chronology—Notes—Bibliography—Index—Acknowledgments.

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