- Title Pages
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- Dedication
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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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Part I Perceptions and Realities -
Chapter 1 The Politics of Zan From Amanullah to Karzai -
Chapter 2 Between Covered and Covert -
Chapter 3 Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance -
Chapter 4 Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How -
Chapter 5 Afghanistan Blues -
Part II A Woman's Place -
Chapter 6 Women's Political Presence -
Chapter 7 Voices of Parliamentarians -
Chapter 8 Nothing Left to Lose -
Chapter 9 Selling Sex in Afghanistan -
Chapter 10 Between Choice and Force -
Part III To Be Whole in Body and Mind -
Chapter 11 The Hidden War Against Women -
Chapter 12 Challenges to Cripple the Spirit -
Chapter 13 Women with Disabilities -
Chapter 14 A Question of Access -
Chapter 15 Psychological Impacts of War -
Part IV Making the Rubble Bloom -
Chapter l6 Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch -
Chapter 17 Rural Women's Livelihood -
Chapter 18 Chadari Politics -
Chapter 19 When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame -
Part V “Don't Eclipse My Happy New Moon” -
Chapter 20 Empowering Women through Education -
Chapter 21 From Both Sides of the Mic -
Chapter 22 Painting Their Way into the Public World -
Chapter 23 A Hidden Discourse - Epilogue Great Expectations
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Chapter 24 Hopes and Dreams - Selected Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
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Introduction
Introduction
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- (p.1) Introduction
- Source:
- Land of the Unconquerable
- Author(s):
Jennifer Heath
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The United States and its allies launched an assault against Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 in retaliation for the attacks of 9/11, and removed the Taliban from power. The U.S.-led invasion tends to obfuscate the fact that no Afghan was responsible for the tragedy of September 11, 2001, yet all Afghans have been paying for it. There are Afghan women who say that the Taliban era was an improvement over the civil war period, for at least there was peace of a sort. This book provides historical background leading to insights, observations, and narratives of Afghan women's lives in the present, as close to the ground as one can get, with comprehensive solutions and modest suggestions for social policy toward the future. Finally, an overview of the chapters included in the book is given.
Keywords: Afghanistan, United States, 9/11, Afghan women, social policy, Taliban
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
Part I Perceptions and Realities -
Chapter 1 The Politics of Zan From Amanullah to Karzai -
Chapter 2 Between Covered and Covert -
Chapter 3 Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance -
Chapter 4 Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How -
Chapter 5 Afghanistan Blues -
Part II A Woman's Place -
Chapter 6 Women's Political Presence -
Chapter 7 Voices of Parliamentarians -
Chapter 8 Nothing Left to Lose -
Chapter 9 Selling Sex in Afghanistan -
Chapter 10 Between Choice and Force -
Part III To Be Whole in Body and Mind -
Chapter 11 The Hidden War Against Women -
Chapter 12 Challenges to Cripple the Spirit -
Chapter 13 Women with Disabilities -
Chapter 14 A Question of Access -
Chapter 15 Psychological Impacts of War -
Part IV Making the Rubble Bloom -
Chapter l6 Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch -
Chapter 17 Rural Women's Livelihood -
Chapter 18 Chadari Politics -
Chapter 19 When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame -
Part V “Don't Eclipse My Happy New Moon” -
Chapter 20 Empowering Women through Education -
Chapter 21 From Both Sides of the Mic -
Chapter 22 Painting Their Way into the Public World -
Chapter 23 A Hidden Discourse - Epilogue Great Expectations
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Chapter 24 Hopes and Dreams - Selected Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
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