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

Publication Info.	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject	Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
	Women's rights -- Afghanistan -- 21st century.
	Women -- Violence against -- Afghanistan -- 21st century.
	Sex crimes -- Afghanistan -- 21st century.
	Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Sex crimes. (OCoLC)fst01114275
	Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
	Women -- Violence against. (OCoLC)fst01427006
	Women's rights. (OCoLC)fst01178818
	Afghanistan. (OCoLC)fst01205406
	HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Chronological Term	2000-2099
Other Form:	Print version: Wimpelmann, Torunn. Pitfalls of protection. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520293199 (DLC) 2017001096
ISBN	9780520966390 (electronic bk.)
	0520966392 (electronic bk.)
	9780520293199 (paperback;) (alk. paper)
	0520293193
	9780520293182
	0520293185

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