Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan

Julie Billaud

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2015

Kabul Carnival

Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan

Julie Billaud

In the series The Ethnography of Political Violence

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291148

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About this book

Offering one of the first long-term on-the-ground ethnographies of Afghanistan since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects designed for Afghan women and imposed by the international community.

Author / Editor information

Julie Billaud is a Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Reviews

"Kabul Carnival is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well argued ethnographic book on women's gender politics in Afghanistan allows for a more sophisticated approach to how we view 'the other'- the gendered other (Afghan women), as well as the religious other (Muslim Afghans)."—PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

"Kabul Carnival examines the contested and changing gender politics in Afghanistan, largely focusing on recent issues but locating them in a wider historical sweep, setting a context in which orientalism and debates about modernity are echoed in the contemporary international agenda to reconstruct Afghanistan."—Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Prologue: “If Only You Were Born a Boy” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: Carnival of (Post)War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
Part I. Phantom State Building
Chapter 1. Queen Soraya’s Portrait Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Chapter 2. National Women’s Machinery: Coaching Lives in the Ministry of Women’s Aff airs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	62
Chapter 3. Public and Private Faces of Gender (In)Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Part II. Bodies of Resistance
Chapter 4. Moral Panics, Indian Soaps, and Cosmetics: Writing the Nation on Women’s Bodies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 5. Strategic Decoration: Dissimulation, Performance, and Agency in an Islamic Public Space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Chapter 6. Poetic Jihad: Narratives of Martyrdom, Suicide, and Suffering Among Afghan Women Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Conclusion: The Carnival Continues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chronology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245

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Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Other: 20 illus.
Keywords: Anthropology; Law; Folklore; Linguistics; Human Rights; Law; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: March 9, 2015
ISBN: 9780812291148