Land of the Unconquerable/ the lives of contemporary Afghan women Heath, Jennifer [ed.]

PART I. PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES
I. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons
for Improving Afghan Women's Status
Shireeu Khan Burki
z. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereotypes,
and Afghan Women's Agency
Margaret A. Mills
3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons
of Afghan Women's Resilience
Anne E. Brodsky
4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community
Development and Women
Wahid Omar
5- Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Biirqa on YouTube
Dinah Zeigcr
PART II. A woman's PLACE
6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting
Gender Interests?
Anna Larson
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7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share
Their Thoughts 12S
Massouda Jalal, Malalai Joya, Fawzia Koofi, and Azita Rafat
8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison 140
Lizette Potgieter
9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul 134
Alisa Tang
10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices
in Afghanistan 161
Deborah J. Smith
PART III, TO BE WHOLE IN BODY AND MIND
11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care
in Afghanistan 179
Sima Samar
iz. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences j88
Pamela Chandler
13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across
the Decades ^00
Mary MacMakin
14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security 212
Elizabeth Stites
I 5. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and
Mental Health
Nahid Aziz
PART IV. MAKING THE RUBBLE BLOOM
16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional
Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women 247
Rachel Lehr
17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the
Agrarian Economy 2-6z
Jo Grace and Adam Pain
18. Chadari Politics: Translating Perceptions into Policy
and Practice 2.j6
Una Abirafeh
19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging
Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment 293
Ashraf Zahedi
PART V. "don't eclipse MY HAPPY NEW MOON"
20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success 309
Sakena Yacoohi
21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media 321
Aunohita Mojumdar
22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and
the Visual Arts 333
Lauryn Oates
23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets 342
Zuzanna Olszewska
EPILOGUE; GREAT EXPECTATIONS
24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans 357
Amina Kator