Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Prologue: “If Only You Were Born a Boy” 1
4. Introduction: Carnival of (Post)War 5
5. Part I. Phantom State Building
6. Chapter 1. Queen Soraya’s Portrait 31
7. Chapter 2. National Women’s Machinery: Coaching Lives in the Ministry of Women’s Aff airs 62
8. Chapter 3. Public and Private Faces of Gender (In)Justice 85
9. Part II. Bodies of Resistance
10. Chapter 4. Moral Panics, Indian Soaps, and Cosmetics: Writing the Nation on Women’s Bodies 111
11. Chapter 5. Strategic Decoration: Dissimulation, Performance, and Agency in an Islamic Public Space 147
12. Chapter 6. Poetic Jihad: Narratives of Martyrdom, Suicide, and Suffering Among Afghan Women 177
13. Conclusion: The Carnival Continues 203
14. Chronology 211
15. Notes 219
16. Bibliography 227
17. Index 241
18. Acknowledgments 245