Afghan Women: Identity and InvasionThrough years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Gender ethnicity agency and identity | 3 |
A short history | 9 |
The structure of the book | 13 |
Resistance and struggle under the Taliban | 16 |
Communal identity and gender relations | 17 |
The civil war and the Taliban period | 19 |
The experiences of Afghan women under the Taliban | 26 |
Returned refugees | 67 |
Pornography and Bollywood | 70 |
Is Afghanistan better now? | 74 |
Exile and identity | 80 |
Migration to the USA and the UK | 89 |
Diasporic consciousness in Iran and Pakistan | 94 |
Exile history and Afghan futures | 98 |
Changing gender relations in the context of Islamic culture | 102 |
Womens survival strategies | 28 |
Under invasion | 40 |
International security forces | 47 |
The UN and international NGOs | 50 |
The state foreign private companies and the warlords | 53 |
The opium economy | 55 |
Women and reconstruction | 59 |
Education | 65 |