Afghan women's own accounts of war, exile and invasion, against the idea that foreign powers came to save them.
War and violencePostcolonial feminismAfghanistanEnglish176 pages
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Julie Billaud · University of Pennsylvania Press · 2015 · 256 pages · Postcolonial feminism
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An ethnography of how Afghan women navigated the gender politics of reconstruction after 2001.
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Read in anthropology and gender courses.
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Afghan women's own accounts of war, exile and invasion, against the idea that foreign powers came to save them.
War and violencePostcolonial feminismAfghanistanEnglish176 pages
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