We Are Afghan Women

We Are Afghan Women
Title We Are Afghan Women PDF eBook
Author Laura Bush
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 352
Release 2017-03-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1501120514

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We Are Afghan Women chronicles the lives of young and old, daughters and mothers, educated and those who are still learning. Their stories are a stark reminder that women's progress in society, business, and politics cannot be taken for granted. Many of these women face serious risks for speaking so openly, but they want the world to listen. Their words will change not only how we as Americans see Afghanistan but also how we understand the complex challenges still facing women and girls around the globe.

Women for Afghan Women

Women for Afghan Women
Title Women for Afghan Women PDF eBook
Author Sunita Mehta
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 254
Release 2002-10-04
Genre Religion
ISBN 9781403960177

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This groundbreaking collection traces the history of women's rights and roles in Afghanistan over the past 30 years; it examines the current human rights crisis, and suggests realistic solutions for post-war Afghanistan.

Afghan Women

Afghan Women
Title Afghan Women PDF eBook
Author Elaheh Rostami-Povey
Publisher Zed Books Ltd.
Pages 162
Release 2013-07-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1848135998

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Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at how women have fought repression and challenged stereotypes, both within Afghanistan and in diasporas in Iran, Pakistan, the US and the UK. Looking at issues from violence under the Taliban and the impact of 9/11 to the role of NGOs and the growth in the opium economy, Rostami-Povey gets behind the media hype and presents a vibrant and diverse picture of these women's lives. The future of women's rights in Afghanistan, she argues, depends not only on overcoming local male domination, but also on challenging imperial domination and blurring the growing divide between the West and the Muslim world. Ultimately, these global dynamics may pose a greater threat to the freedom and autonomy of women in Afghanistan and throughout the world.

With All Our Strength

With All Our Strength
Title With All Our Strength PDF eBook
Author Anne E. Brodsky
Publisher Routledge
Pages 333
Release 2004-06
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1135951950

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With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world.

In My Father's Country

In My Father's Country
Title In My Father's Country PDF eBook
Author Saima Wahab
Publisher Crown
Pages 354
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307884945

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Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.

Embroidering within Boundaries

Embroidering within Boundaries
Title Embroidering within Boundaries PDF eBook
Author Rangina Hamidi
Publisher Schiffer + ORM
Pages 435
Release 2017-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1507302428

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Winner, Silver Medal in the Multicultural Category, 2018 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Fifteen years ago, Rangina Hamidi decided to dedicate her life to helping rebuild her native Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban had been driven out by American forces following 9/11, but Kandahar was a shambles. Tens of thousands of women, widowed by years of conflict, struggled to support themselves and their families. Rangina started an entrepreneurial enterprise, using the exquisite traditional embroidery of Kandahar, to help women work within the cultural boundaries of Pashtunwali to earn their living and to find a degree of self-determination. Thus Kandahar Treasure was born. This book traces the converging paths of traditional khamak embroidery and the 300 brave women who have found in it a way to build their lives. The late, award-winning photojournalist Paula Lerner was dedicated to telling the stories of women in Afghanistan. Her remarkable images throughout the book show Afghan women's profound struggle, strength, and beauty.

Kabul in Winter

Kabul in Winter
Title Kabul in Winter PDF eBook
Author Ann Jones
Publisher Metropolitan Books
Pages 346
Release 2007-03-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1466827653

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A sharp and arresting people's-eye view of real life in Afghanistan after the Taliban Soon after the bombing of Kabul ceased, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city, determined to bring help where her country had brought destruction. Here is her trenchant report from inside a city struggling to rise from the ruins. Working among the multitude of impoverished war widows, retraining Kabul's long-silenced English teachers, and investigating the city's prison for women, Jones enters a large community of female outcasts: runaway child brides, pariah prostitutes, cast-off wives, victims of rape. In the streets and markets, she hears the Afghan view of the supposed benefits brought by the fall of the Taliban, and learns that regarding women as less than human is the norm, not the aberration of one conspicuously repressive regime. Jones confronts the ways in which Afghan education, culture, and politics have repeatedly been hijacked—by Communists, Islamic fundamentalists, and the Western free marketeers—always with disastrous results. And she reveals, through small events, the big disjunctions: between U.S promises and performance, between the new "democracy" and the still-entrenched warlords, between what's boasted of and what is. At once angry, profound, and starkly beautiful, Kabul in Winter brings alive the people and day-to-day life of a place whose future depends so much upon our own.