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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Veena Das · University of California Press · 2007 · 296 pages · War and violence · Partition
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An anthropology of how women lived with the violence of Partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in everyday life.
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Read in anthropology and gender courses on violence.
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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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Uses women's testimonies and government records to trace the abduction, 'recovery' and resettlement of women after 1947, and how the state decided where they belonged.
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Testimonies of Palestinian women political prisoners and their resistance inside Israeli prisons.