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Author:

Billaud, Julie, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

PENNUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--Afghanistan--Social conditions--21st century.
Nationalism and feminism--History--Islam--History--21st century.
Postwar reconstruction--Afghanistan.
Public spaces--Afghanistan--History--21st century.
Violence against women--Afghanistan--History--21st century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.

Contents:

Prologue: "If only you were born a boy" -- Introduction: Carnival of (post)war -- Phantom State building. Queen Soraya's portrait -- National women's machinery: coaching lives in the Ministry of Women's Affairs -- Public and private faces of gender (in)justice -- Bodies of resistance. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics: writing the nation on women's bodies -- Strategic decoration: dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space -- Poetic jihad: narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffereing among Afghan women -- Conclusion: the carnival continues.

Series:

The ethnography of political violence

ISBN:

0812246969 (alk. paper)
9780812246964 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893455589

LCCN:

2014040354

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)