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Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future
Women for Afghan Women Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future Author:Sunita Mehta (Editor), Esther Hyneman, (Editor) Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future is a collaborative attempt to write history, to bring greater awareness to the issues of Afghanistan and Afghan women, and to promote the agency of Afghan women in issues that impact their lives. The book includes a variety of female voices, highlighting a unifying desire to... more » come together as women and share, network, and strategize for change. This desire is focused on Afghan women but is also about global sisterhood and about the importance of feminist activism on an international level. “Women for Afghan Women,” a group comprised of both Afghan and non-Afghan women, was formed in April 2001 and is committed to the struggle for Afghan women's human rights.
Foreword : Afghanistan : truth and mythology / Sima Wali --
Introduction : building community across difference / Sunita Mehta and Homaira Mamoor. The lessons of history. Women have no name in that land / Fevziye Rahzogar Barlas --
Afghan women : an allegory / Freshta Amirzada --
Looking back, looking forward / Eleanor Smeal --
Women and equality in Islam / Sanaa Nadim --
The Zan of Afghanistan : a 35-year perspective on women in Afghanistan / Arline Lederman --
Excerpts from The apostle's diary / Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald --
The kaleidoscope of memory / Gloria Steinem --
The mission of RAWA : freedom, democracy, human rights / Weeda Mansoor --
The loya jirga (grand assembly) tradition in Afghanistan : will the formation of a loya jirga empower women and solve the crisis in Afghanistan? / Sara Amiryar --
A vision of justice, equality, and peace / Fahima Vorgetts --
Miss Afghanistan : a story of a nation / Zohra Yusuf Daoud with contributions from Murwarid Abdiani --
Photo essay : history, faces, transplanted lives / Lina Pallotta. Stories and strategies for claiming the future. In mourning of my city ; Faryad (scream) / Atia Gaheez --
On making political change / Ruth Messinger --
Muslim women's rights : a contemporary debate / Riffat Hassan --
United Nations and Afghanistan / Angela E.V. King --
Women are opening doors : Security Council resolution 1325 in Afghanistan / Felicity Hill and Mikele Aboitiz --
I hope this letter will reach you / Irena Lieberman --
Public health : a reconstruction policy in Afghanistan / Zohra Rasekh --
Two identities, one mission / Fariba Nawa --
Hope in Afghanistan / Masuda Sultan --
Epilogue : from pawns to principals : the future of Afghan women / Rina Amiri« less