Title The pitfalls of protection gender, violence, and power in Afghanistan / Torunn Wimpelmann

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 215 pages.) Contents Introduction : the politics of violence against women -- Part I. Legal regimes. Intrusions, invasions and interventions : histories of gender, justice and governance in Afghanistan. "Good women have no need for this law" : the battles over the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW). -- Part II. New protection mechanisms. Brokers of justice : the special prosecution unit for crimes of violence against women in Kabul. With a little help from the war on terror : the women's shelters -- Part III. Individual cases. Runaway women. Upholding citizen honor? : Rape in the courts and beyond -- Conclusions : protection at a price? 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 Analysis afghanistan contemporary court case female issues feminist studies feminist gender inequality gender global government injustice international justice system justice legal issues middle east modern world politics protection rape runaway sexual violence violence against women violence war on terror women in afghanistan womens issues womens shelters Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-206) and index Subject Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women's rights -- Afghanistan -- 21st century Women -- Violence against -- Afghanistan -- 21st century Sex crimes -- Afghanistan -- 21st century HISTORY / Middle East / General. Politics and government Sex crimes Women -- Social conditions Women -- Violence against Women's rights SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century Subject Afghanistan Form Electronic book LC no. 2017001096 ISBN 9780520293199 0520293193

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