Kindle Edition Amazon McFarland Publishers McFarland Publishers Aurora Protection Specialists, Boca, Raton, Florida Category:  Women Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN-10:  0786410906 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 200 Copyright: Jan 1 2002 ISBN-13: 9780786410903 Price: $9.99 (eBook) _The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban_ describes life as it is now for women in Afghanistan. Ebook ISBN: 978-0-7864-8174-3. Even though the people of Afghanistan have in general suffered under the Taliban, women live especially difficult lives, enduring terrible hardships. They are denied basic human rights and kept in seclusion. This work addresses the religion, revolution, and national identity of Afghan women and discusses their political and religious place, thus elevating our understanding of their abuse, imprisonment and murder, and offering a basis for their rehabilitation. Powerful and moving interviews with Afghan women, conducted and translated by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan are presented and a brief history of the struggle of the Afghan women and an overview of the conflict between the Afghans and the Taliban are included. Appendices, tables, bibliography, index.                   Excerpt The Taliban changed our whole life. Last year, the fighting between Massoud’s forces and the Taliban in Shamali struck the first blow to our life when a rocket hit directly in the middle of the garden and burned almost all the trees. It was really hard for my husband to repair his beloved garden. He was working steadily in the garden in his leisure time and completed nearly half the garden. The recent fighting struck the most backbreaking blow, this time it was not the garden but its gardener that became the victim of the fighting. My husband was in his shop when suddenly the shelling of rockets started, he did hurry to get his shop closed but he was too late. A rocket blew up just in front of the shop and killed him on the spot. [Interview, Safia] TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments v Abbreviations ix Tables viii Preface 1 Introduction 3 Chapter I - Modern Political and Social Roles of Afghan Women Chapter II - Women’s Roles in Islam Chapter III - Afghan Women, Contemporary Wars and Geo-Political Forces Chapter IV - Afghan Women under the Rule of the Taliban Chapter V - Profiles of Afghan Women Chapter VI - Hope for the Future Appendix A: Selected Organizations That Provide Information on Afghanistan Appendix B: Notes from the 2000 Conference for Women of Afghanistan Appendix C: Some of the Restrictions and Decrees Imposed by Taliban Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

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Especially revealing are profiles of actual Afghan women, and their own tales of how the Taliban regime brought them misery and suffering. For example, a woman named Zarmina says, "The Taliban are very harsh to our people and especially to our women. They beat old men in the street for not having long beards or boys for having long hair. The Taliban made our already ruined life a misery." Many women tell firsthand of murders or other violence, and the crippling economic impact of two decades of nearly continuous war. (Dec. 11, 2001)




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Sociologist Skaine presents a brief overview of the quality of life for Afghan women under the former Taliban regime of Afghanistan, as well as women's responses to the Taliban. After presenting a brief overview of the history of Afghanistan, discussing how women have played a much more prominent role in Afghan civil and political life in the past, she details many of the abuses of the Taliban regime and discusses whether their treatment of women is somehow intrinsic to the practice of Islam. A significant part of the work includes profiles of a couple dozen Afghan women, many of whom resisted Taliban policies by opening schools, documenting abuses, and building resistance organizations. This section is helped by the fact that Skaine is able to present interviews collected by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), thereby gaining access to voices that aren't normally heard in Western sources. The rapid turning of events following the U.S. attack on the country necessarily dates a final chapter on the prospects for the future. (Feb. 2002)