Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index.
Contents
Prologue: "If only you were born a boy" -- Introduction: Carnival of (post)war -- Phantom State building. Queen Soraya's portrait -- National women's machinery: coaching lives in the Ministry of Women's Affairs -- Public and private faces of gender (in)justice -- Bodies of resistance. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics: writing the nation on women's bodies -- Strategic decoration: dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space -- Poetic jihad: narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffereing among Afghan women -- Conclusion: the carnival continues.
