The pitfalls of protection : gender, violence and power in Afghanistan /

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Author / Creator:Wimpelmann, Torunn, author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11397889
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ISBN:9780520966390
0520966392
9780520293199 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520293193
9780520293182
0520293185
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:"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.
Other form:Print version: Wimpelmann, Torunn, author. Pitfalls of protection Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293199
Standard no.:10.1525/luminos.32