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Title:
Kabul carnival : gender politics in postwar Afghanistan / Julie Billaud.
Author:
Billaud, Julie, author.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : PENN, University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
Call Number:
HQ1735.6 .B55 2015
ISBN:
9780812246964
Series:
The ethnography of political violence

Ethnography of political violence.
Physical Description:
viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
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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