Land of the unconquerable
Subtitle: the lives of contemporary Afghan women
By: edited by Jennifer Heath and Ashraf Zahedi
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780520261853; 9780520261860
Subjects: Social conditions; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-370) and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: lessons for improving Afghan women's status / Sbireen Khan Burki; title: Between covered and covert: traditions, stereotypes, and Afghan women's agency / Margaret A. Mills; title: Centuries of threat, centuries of resistance: the lessons of Afghan women's resilience / Anne E. Brodsky; title: Don't say what, who, and when, say how: community development and women / Wahid Omar; title: Afghanistan blues: seeing beyond the Burqa on Youtube / Dinah Zeiger; title: "Women's political presence: a path to promoting gender interests? / Anna Larson; title: Voices of parliamentarians: four women MPs share their thoughts / Massouda Jalal ... [et al.]; title: Nothing left to lose: women in prison / Lizette Potgieter; title: Selling sex in Afghanistan: portraits of sex workers in Kabul / Alisa Tang; title: Between choice and force: marriage practices in Afghanistan / Deborah J. Smith; title: The hidden war against women: health care in Afghanistan / Sima Samar; title: Challenges to cripple the spirit: a midwife's experiences / Pamela Chandler; title: Women with disabilities: recollections from across the decades / Mary Macmakin; title: A question of access: women and food security / Elizabeth Stites; title: Psychological impacts of war: human rights and mental health / Nahid Aziz; title: Mending Afghanistan stitch by stitch: how traditional crafts and social organization advance Afghan women / Rachel Lehr; title: Rural women's livelihood: their position in the agrarian economy / Jo Grace, Adam Pain; title: Chadari politics: translating perceptions into policy and practice / Lina Abirafeh; title: When the picture does not fit the frame: engaging afghan men in women's empowerment / Ashraf Zahedi; title: Empowering women through education: recipe for success / Sakena Yacoobi; title: From both sides of the mic: women and the media / Aunohita Mojumdar; title: Painting their way into the public world: women and the visual arts / Lauryn Oates; title: A hidden discourse: Afghanistan's women poets / Zuzanna Olszewska; title: Hopes and dreams: interviews with young Afghans / Amina Kator.