Introduction Peripheral Social Formation: Drive for Modernity Gender Polity: The Status of Women Peripheral State: Politics of Modernization Political Mobilization: Women's Struggle for Equality Politics of Regression: Women in the Post-Soviet Era Women's Empowerment: Prospects for Future Appendix: Bilateral Agreement Between the Republic of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the Voluntary Return of Refugees Bibliography Index
HAFIZULLAH EMADI is a development consultant. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, Emadi taught in the University of Hawaii system, joined the East-West Center's International Relations Program as a Fellow in 1990, and was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 1999.
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cultures, the immense difficulties facing Afghan women and men, and
possible avenues for international political support and
action."-Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
"Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"The scholarly reader seeking an overview of the cultural and
political roles of women in Afghanistan may turn to Hafizullah
Emadi's Repression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan."-The
Women's Review of Books
"[G]ives the reader a sense of the complexity of Afghan history and
cultures, the immense difficulties facing Afghan women and men, and
possible avenues for international political support and
action."-Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
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