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
Nahla Abdo
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Testimonies of Palestinian women political prisoners and their resistance inside Israeli prisons.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how Palestinian children in Jerusalem are arrested, detained and denied a childhood.
An anthropology of how women lived with the violence of Partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in everyday life.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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How military occupation shapes violence against Palestinian women, and how women resist and survive it.
An ethnography of rape trials showing how courts, police and medical examinations turn survivors' testimony into doubt.
Srila Roy
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Women's memories of the Naxalbari movement in Bengal, and the gendered violence within radical politics.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
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On how surveillance and security reach into Palestinian homes, bodies and births in occupied East Jerusalem.
Torunn Wimpelmann
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How the international push to end violence against women in Afghanistan played out in law, courts and politics.
Nayanika Mookherjee
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How the wartime rape of women in 1971 has been remembered, used and silenced in Bangladesh.
ed. Kalpana Kannabiran
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Essays on everyday violence against women in India, from the home to the workplace and the state.
Interviews with women held in solitary confinement in Iran, gathered by the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.