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Author Billaud, Julie,
Title Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan / Julie Billaud.
Publication Info Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]


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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.
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ISBN 9780812291148 (electronic bk.)
081229114X (electronic bk.)
9780812246964 (alk. paper)
0812246969
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Author Billaud, Julie,
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Subject Violence against women -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Public spaces -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan.
Nationalism and feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 21st century.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- History -- 21st century.
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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.
Note In English.
.
ISBN 9780812291148 (electronic bk.)
081229114X (electronic bk.)
9780812246964 (alk. paper)
0812246969
Standard # 10.9783/9780812291148 doi
Author Billaud, Julie,
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Subject Violence against women -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Public spaces -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan.
Nationalism and feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 21st century.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- History -- 21st century.

Subject Violence against women -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Public spaces -- Afghanistan -- History -- 21st century.
Postwar reconstruction -- Afghanistan.
Nationalism and feminism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- History -- 21st century.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- History -- 21st century.
Descript 1 online resource
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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.
Note In English.
.
ISBN 9780812291148 (electronic bk.)
081229114X (electronic bk.)
9780812246964 (alk. paper)
0812246969
Standard # 10.9783/9780812291148 doi
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