TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wimpelmann,Torunn
TI  - The Pitfalls of Protection: Gender, Violence, and Power in Afghanistan 
SN  - 9780520293199
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - History / Historical Geography
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender politics. The Pitfalls of Protection, based on research conducted in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2015, locates the struggles over gender violence in local and global power configurations. Torunn Wimpelmann finds that aid flows and geopolitics have served as both opportunities for and obstacles to feminist politics in Afghanistan. Showing why Afghan activists often chose to use the leverage of Western powers instead of entering into either protracted negotiations with powerful national actors or broad political mobilization, this book examines both the achievements and the limits of this strategy
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/50080b2f-68a9-46d4-96c4-5c4e5b3c23d8
ER  -