Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan

by Julie Billaud

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule was widely publicized in the United States as one of the humanitarian issues justifying intervention. Kabul Carnival explores the contradictions, ambiguities, and unintended effects of the emancipatory projects for Afghan women designed and imposed by external organizations. Building on embodiment and performance theory, this evocative ethnography describes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812246969
• ISBN13: 9780812246964
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"