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Gender and international aid in Afghanistan : the politics and effects of intervention

Title
Gender and international aid in Afghanistan : the politics and effects of intervention / Lina Abirafeh.
ISBN
9780786445196 (softcover : alk. paper)
078644519X (softcover : alk. paper)
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2009.
Physical Description
viii, 224 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book seeks to understand the tenuous relationship between social indicators and aid dynamics; the advancing of the gender agenda through Afghanistan's 2005 parliamentary elections; and the journey from policy formulation to interpretation to implementation through the voices of policy-makers, policy implementers, NGO leaders, and Afghanistan specialists. The final chapter is voices of Afghan women and men"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
An agenda for social change
Discourses on Chaddari politics
Gender and the aid apparatus
Transplanting democracy
Afghaniyat and the gender order
Maida, Maida
This is Afghanistan
Violence in the aftermath
Insecurities and ideological occupations.
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