Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders - Softcover

Kitch, Sally L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252080270 ISBN 13: 9780252080272

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

Synopsis

Sally L. Kitch explores the crisis in contemporary Afghan women’s lives by focusing on two remarkable Afghan professional women working on behalf of their Afghan sisters. Kitch's compelling narrative follows the stories of Judge Marzia Basel and Jamila Afghani from 2005 through 2013, providing an oft-ignored perspective on the personal and professional lives of Afghanistan's women. Contending with the complex dynamics of a society both undergoing and resisting change, Basel and Afghani speak candidly--and critically--of matters like international intervention and patriarchal Afghan culture, capturing the ways in which immense possibility alternates and vies with utter hopelessness. Strongly rooted in feminist theory and interdisciplinary historical and geopolitical analysis, Contested Terrain sheds new light on the struggle against the powerful forces that affect Afghan women's education, health, political participation, livelihoods, and quality of life. The book also suggests how a new dialogue might be started--in which women from across geopolitical boundaries might find common cause for change and rewrite their collective stories.

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About the Author

Sally L. Kitch is Regents' Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and the founding Director of the Institute of Humanities Research at Arizona State University. She is the author of The Specter of Sex: Gendered Foundations of Racial Formation in the United States.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252080270
• ISBN 13: 9780252080272
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280