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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. Perceptions and Realities
6. CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women’s Status 45
7. CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women’s Agency 60
8. CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women’s Resilience 74
9. CHAPTER 4. Don’t Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women 90
10. CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube 103
11. PART II. A Woman’s Place
12. CHAPTER 6. Women’s Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? 119
13. CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts 128
14. CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison 140
15. CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul 154
16. CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan 162
17. PART III. To Be Whole in Body and Mind
18. CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan 179
19. CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife’s Experiences 188
20. CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades 200
21. CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security 212
22. CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health 229
23. PART IV. Making the Rubble Bloom
24. CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women 247
25. CHAPTER 17. Rural Women’s Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy 262
26. CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice 276
27. CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women’s Empowerment 293
28. PART V. “Don’t Eclipse My Happy New Moon”
29. CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success 309
30. CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media 321
31. CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts 333
32. CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan’s Women Poets 342
33. EPILOGUE: Great Expectations
34. CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans 357
35. Selected Bibliography 367
36. About the Contributors 371
37. Index 379