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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Perceptions and Realities | |
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| The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status | |
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| Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereotypes, and Afghan Women's Agency | |
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| Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience | |
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| Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women | |
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| Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube | |
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| A Woman's Place | |
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| Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? | |
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| Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts | |
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| Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison | |
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| Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul | |
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| Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan | |
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| To Be Whole in Body and Mind | |
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| The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan | |
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| Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences | |
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| Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades | |
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| A Question of Access: Women and Food Security | |
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| Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health | |
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| Making the Rubble Bloom | |
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| Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women | |
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| Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy | |
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| Chadari Politics: Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice | |
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| When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment | |
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| �Don't Eclipse My Happy New Moon� | |
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| Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success | |
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| From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media | |
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| Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts | |
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| A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets | |
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| Epilogue: Great Expectations | |
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| Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| About the Contributors | |
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| Index | |