Pious peripheries : runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan

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    • Ahsan, Sonia (Anthropologist)

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Pious peripheries : runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan

Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi

Stanford University Press, c2021

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-227) and index

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内容説明

The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo-and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan.

目次

Introduction: Introduction 1. The Shelter 2. Portraits of Pain 3. Poetic Risk 4. Taliban's Women 5. Pedagogies of Womanhood 6. Subject of Honor Conclusion: Conclusion

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