New book on women & Afghanistan
September 28th, 2009 Posted by admin
Women’s rights and issues in Afghanistan is not a topic that has gone unnoticed. In Lina Abirafeh’s new book , “Gender and International Aid in Afghanistan” she takes a look at the gender agenda in Afghanistan and how international aid is involved and the progress it is making.
Description
Afghanistan has become home to one of the largest gender-focused aid interventions in the aftermath of 9/11, with foreign aid agencies using Afghan women as a barometer of social change and political progress. Through the lens of gendered aid intervention, this book seeks to understand how the promise of freedom has largely fallen short—for both men and women. Topics include 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, Afghanistan specialists and ordinary Afghan women and men.
About the Author
Lina Abirafeh has worked with issues of gender and development in a variety of countries and contexts, including Sierra Leone and Papua New Guinea. She received a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 2008 and has published widely on her experiences.
