TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wimpelmann, Torunn
AB  - Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. Torunn Wimpelmann finds that aid flows and geopolitics have served as both opportunities for and obstacles to feminist politics in Afghanistan. Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, this book examines both the achievements and the limits of this strategy.
DO  - 10.1525/luminos.32
ID  - OAPEN ID: 631933
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 970604464
KW  - violence against women
KW  - afghan women
KW  - feminist politics
KW  - afghanistan
KW  - legal reform
KW  - war on terror
KW  - development aid
KW  - mujahedin
KW  - s movement
KW  - Kabul
KW  - Prosecutor
KW  - Rape
KW  - Taliban
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/8ad41dd9-5e47-4cf8-8e6a-a8cb23883083/631933.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31308
PB  - University of California Press
PP  - Oakland, California
PY  - 2017
SN  - 9780520966390;9780520966390;9780520966390
TI  - The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistannull
ER  - 
