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Informationen zum Autor Julie Billaud Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: "If Only You Were Born a Boy" Introduction: Carnival of (Post)War PART I. PHANTOM STATE BUILDING Chapter 1. Queen Soraya's Portrait Chapter 2. National Women's Machinery: Coaching Lives in the Ministry of Women's Affairs # Chapter 3. Public and Private Faces of Gender (In)Justice PART II. BODIES OF RESISTANCE Chapter 4. Moral Panics, Indian Soaps, and Cosmetics: Writing the Nation on Women's Bodies # Chapter 5. Strategic Decoration: Dissimulation, Performance, and Agency in an Islamic Public Space Chapter 6. Poetic Jihad: Narratives of Martyrdom, Suicide, and Suffering Among Afghan Women Conclusion: The Carnival Continues Chronology Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
