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Index
Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Perceptions and Realities
1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women’s Status
2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereotypes, and Afghan Women’s Agency
3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women’s Resilience
4. Don’t Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women
5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube
Part II. A Woman’s Place
6. Women’s Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests?
7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts
8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison
9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul
10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan
Part III. To be Whole in Body and Mind
11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan
12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife’s Experiences
13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades
14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security
15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health
Part IV. Making the Rubble Bloom
16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women
17. Rural Women’s Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy
18. Chadari Politics: Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice
19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women’s Empowerment
Part V. “Don’t Eclipse My Happy New Moon”
20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success
21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media
22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts
23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan’s Women Poets
Epilogue: Great Expectations
24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index
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