Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan / Hafizullah Emadi.

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Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve their situation. Emadi takes a long look at the role of development and modernization policies implemented by the state in the pre- and post-Soviet eras, under the Taliban, and beyond. He finds that such policies have failed to bring about much- needed change and improvement for women. Modernization strategies benefited only a small segment of urban women and left the plight of rural women unchanged. Although a small segment of middle- and upper-class women organized themselves and fought to bring about changes in their status and to end gender inequality, their efforts alone did not meet with much success.

Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Peripheral Social Formation: Drive for Modernity -- 2 Gender Polity: The Status of Women -- 3 Peripheral State: Politics of Modernization -- 4 Political Mobilization: Women�s Struggle for Equality -- 5 Politics of Regression: Women in the Post- Soviet Era -- 6 Women�s Empowerment: Prospects for the Future -- Appendix: Bilateral Agreement Between the Republic of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the Voluntary Return of Refugees -- Bibliography -- Index

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