Gender and international aid in Afghanistan
Subtitle: the politics and effects of intervention
By: Lina Abirafeh.
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780786445196
Subjects: Women's rights -- Afghanistan; Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions; Economic assistance -- Social aspects -- Afghanistan; Economic development -- Social aspects -- Afghanistan; Afghanistan -- Social policy; Afghanistan -- Politics and government
Description: "This book seeks to understand the tenuous relationship between social indicators and aid dynamics; the advancing of the gender agenda through Afghanistan's 2005 parliamentary elections; and the journey from policy formulation to interpretation to implementation through the voices of policy-makers, policy implementers, NGO leaders, and Afghanistan specialists. The final chapter is voices of Afghan women and men"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An agenda for social change; title: Discourses on Chaddari politics; title: Gender and the aid apparatus; title: Transplanting democracy; title: Afghaniyat and the gender order; title: Maida, Maida; title: This is Afghanistan; title: Violence in the aftermath; title: Insecurities and ideological occupations.