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Women, War and Islamic Radicalisation in Maryam Mahboob's Afghanistan

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posted on 2020-08-19, 00:22 authored by Faridullah Bezhan
Afghanistan is regarded as a classical patriarchal society, where social tradition, religious doctrine and socio-economic and cultural backwardness have made women second-class citizens. But what has been the nature of life for women in Afghanistan? How have they been treated, both in the private sphere and in public? How did they resist mistreatment during the war inside Afghanistan, in refugee camps or in diaspora? Who are the sponsors and perpetrators of violence against Afghanistani women? And what are the connections between Islam, local customs, the mistreatment of women, and women’s connectedness to revolution and jihad? This book provides answers to these questions through an innovative study of the life and short stories of one of the country’s leading female writers, Maryam Mahboob. It offers a different image of both the suffering and resistance of Afghanistani women than that which the ‘West’ has come to know.

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Paperback ISBN

9781925377026

e-PDF ISBN

9781925377033

e-pub ISBN

9781925377446

Mobi ISBN

9781925377453

Pages total

200

Size

234mm x 153mm

Series

Monash Asia Series

Publisher

Monash University Publishing

Print publication date

1/06/2016