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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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
Minoo Moallem
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How Islamic nationalism and Western representations both build gendered images of Iranian men and women.
Shows how colonial officials and Indian reformers argued over sati while the women burned were left out of the debate.
Questions the rescue narratives used to justify war and intervention in the name of Muslim women.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Collects Mohanty's essays, including 'Under Western Eyes', on decolonising feminism and building solidarity across borders.
An ethnography of how Afghan women navigated the gender politics of reconstruction after 2001.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
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Essays on how women are represented in Indian culture and politics, from sati to television and rape.
How Western and Iranian feminists have imagined Persian women, from the nineteenth century to the diaspora.
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
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Argues that gender was not a central organising category in Yorùbá society before colonialism.