The Pitfalls of Protection Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan

• Tác giả: Torunn Wimpelmann
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0520966392
• ISBN: 9780520293199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN-13: 978-0520966390
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 305.4095810905 Women
• Thông tin xuất bản: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 195753
• Chủ đề: 1. Sex crimes--21st century--Afghanistan; 2. Women--Violence against--21st century--Afghanistan; 3. Women--Social conditions--21st century--Afghanistan; 4. Women's rights--21st century--Afghanistan

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index.

Tóm tắt

"Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Politics of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. The author finds that aid flows and geopolitics have served as both opportunities and obstacles to feminist politics in Afghanistan. Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, the book examines both the achievements and the limits of this strategy."--Provided by publisher.