Freedom on the Frontlines

Afghan Women and the Fallacy of Liberation
2. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4766-8942-5
Verlag: McFarland

Buch, Englisch, 277 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Afghan women were at the forefront of global agendas in late 2001, fueled by a mix of media coverage, humanitarian intervention and military operations. Calls for "liberating" Afghan women were widespread. Women's roles in Afghanistan have long been politically divisive, marked by struggles between modernization and tradition. Women, politics, and the state have always been intertwined in Afghanistan, and conflicts have been fueled by attempts to challenge or change women's status.

It may appear that we have come full circle twenty years later, in late 2021, when Afghanistan fell to the Taliban once more. Women's rights in Afghanistan have been stripped away, and any gains--however tenuous--now appear lost. Today, the country navigates both a humanitarian and a human rights crisis. This book measures the rhetoric of liberation and the physical and ideological occupations of Afghanistan over the twenty-year period from 2001 through 2021 through the voices, perspectives, and experiences of those who are implicated in this reality--Afghan women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Abirafeh, Lina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1. The Story of "Liberation" for Afghan Women
Chapter 2. Where We Fit Is Where We Fight
Chapter 3. The Honor of the Nation
Chapter 4. Aid as Liberation?
Chapter 5. Democracy as Liberation?
Chapter 6. War Has Never Been Over for Them
Chapter 7. At the Feminist Interface
Chapter 8. Women's Agency and Resistance
Chapter 9. Freedom Is Only Won from the Inside
Dari Terminology
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lina AbiRafeh has worked with issues of gender and development in a variety of countries and contexts, including Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. She received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 2008 and has published widely on her experiences. She lives in New York.