Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for SuccessĢ1. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women’s Empowerment Chadari Politics: Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practiceġ9. Rural Women’s Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economyġ8. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Womenġ7. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Healthġ6. A Question of Access: Women and Food Securityġ5.
Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decadesġ4. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife’s Experiencesġ3. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistanġ2. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistanġ1. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabulġ0.
Massouda Jalal, Malalai Joya, Fawzia Koofi, and Azita Rafatĩ. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts Women’s Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests?ħ. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTubeĦ. Don’t Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Womenĥ. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women’s ResilienceĤ. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereotypes, and Afghan Women’s Agencyģ. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women’s StatusĢ. This will be tremendously useful to scholars and activists around the world.” -Shahla Haeri, Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Boston Universityġ. The essays are well-written, apt, interesting and close to the ground.
“This edited collection about the constraints, opportunities and contexts in which Afghan women are living today is a triumph. This is an outstanding and timely volume.” -Rickie Solinger, co-editor of Interrupted Life: Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the U.S. “ Land of the Unconquerable provides a nuanced picture of the complex and diverse lives of Afghan women, and it successfully dispels much public misinformation about Afghanistan and its people. Essential reading for those with a serious interest in topics relating to women in Afghanistan.” -Hafizullah Emadi, Development consultant, Afghanistan A diverse group of writers and activists put forth a good review and analysis of the current situation for women in Afghanistan and provide a significant contribution to an extremely important but still neglected subject. This timely and informative book counters that claim and describes how women continue to suffer since the Taliban fell from power. “The United States and its NATO allies declared they would liberate the women of Afghanistan from years of brutal exploitation and tyrannical rule when they entered the country and toppled the Taliban in late 2001. “This book urgently and importantly avoids politicizing women’s issues for personal gain.” -Sima Wali, former President of Refugee Women in Development and former Peace Talks delegate at the Bonn Conference “This is a valuable book addressing a question that needs to be understood if peace in Afghanistan is ever to be achieved.” -Haleh Afshar, co-author of Women in Later Life: Exploring Race and Ethnicity Ramdas, former President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and current Visiting Scholar and Fellow at Stanford University
It is far too rare to hear Afghans, particularly Afghan women, speak in their own voices about their realities, and this volume addresses this lack with both courage and clarity.” -Kavita N. The first person accounts by long-time Afghan activists are especially moving. Khan Himal Southasian "One comes away from this mosaic-like presentation with the sense of having traveled through a wide variety of Afghan milieus accompanied by highly knowledgable guides and having had informative first-hand experiences of problems facing Afghan women." -Ann Elizabeth Mayer Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice“ Land of the Unconquerable is a timely collection of insightful articles and reflections. Finally, the book manages to provide a glimpse of ordinariness, and of the rhythm of women’s routine lives, in all their complexity and simplicity – perhaps Land of the Unconquerable’s greatest achievement.” -Taran N. Indispensable reading for anyone sincerely interested in fostering peace and well-being for Afghanistan and its people.” - Choice “The book provides insights into the many-layered lives of Afghan women with all their contradictions and pitfalls, as well as the moments of hope and laughter. sugar coat the experiences of Afghan women and girls, but provides them with texture and nuance, and reflects their strength.” - Huffington Post “The carefully researched and nuanced articles are a valuable introduction to the political, economic, and cultural context of today’s Afghanistan, in which women are forced to navigate. Reviews “ a textured picture of the lives of both Afghan women and men.
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