| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 185 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-174) and index. |
| Summary |
Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation. Emadi takes a long look at the role of development and modernization policies implemented by the state in the pre- and post-Soviet eras, under the Taliban, and beyond. He finds that such policies have failed to bring about much- needed change and improvement for women. Modernization strategies benefited only a small segment of urban women and left the plight of rural women unchanged. Although a small segment of middle- and upper-class women organized themselves and fought to bring about changes in their status and to end gender inequality, their efforts alone did not meet with much success. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Tables""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Peripheral Social Formation: Drive for Modernity""; ""2 Gender Polity: The Status of Women""; ""3 Peripheral State: Politics of Modernization""; ""4 Political Mobilization: Women�s Struggle for Equality""; ""5 Politics of Regression: Women in the Post- Soviet Era""; ""6 Women�s Empowerment: Prospects for the Future""; ""Appendix: Bilateral Agreement Between the Republic of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the Voluntary Return of Refugees""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century.
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Women. |
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Afghanistan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Women in development -- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century.
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Women in development. |
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Women -- Political activity -- Afghanistan -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- Political activity. |
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Patriarchy -- Afghanistan.
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Patriarchy. |
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Women in Islam -- Afghanistan.
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Women in Islam. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Emadi, Hafizullah. Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002 0275976718 (DLC) 2002025312 (OCoLC)49332788 |
| ISBN |
0313012466 (electronic book) |
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9780313012464 (electronic book) |
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0275976718 (alkaline paper) |
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9780275976712 (alkaline paper) |
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1280422920 |
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9781280422928 |
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