Pious Peripheries: Runaway Women In Post-Taliban Afghanistan - 9781503614703

Women in Afghanistan have few resources once they are marked as promiscuous, licentious, or shameless, which can happen for reasons that have little to do with sex or sexuality. Based on 24-months of fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, Sonia Ahsan provides readers with a social and textual ethnography of the category of sexual promiscuity in Afghanistan. This is the first ethnography of Pashtun women written by a Pashtun woman--

• | Author: Sonia Ahsan
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: May 18, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1503614700
• | ISBN-13: 9781503614703