عنوان

At the Intersection of Patriarch Street, Flower Street and Neo-Orientalist Lane: The Oral Histories of Afghan Women Living in Australia

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انگلیسی

At the Intersection of Patriarch Street, Flower Street and Neo-Orientalist Lane: The Oral Histories of Afghan Women Living in Australia

[Thesis]

Annette Tzavaras

Western Sydney University (Australia)

2018

260

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=9781083483256

Ph.D.

Western Sydney University (Australia)

2018

This is a qualitative empirical thesis which will examine the lived reality behind the visual representation of the veiled Afghan woman in the blue burqa. 'Reality', is defined as "the state of things as they are or appear to be, rather than as one might wish them to be". (Hanks 1979, p, 1216). Eight Afghan women, now living in Australia articulate their experience of the residue of cultural and political warfare throughout the Russian (1979-1989), mujahedeen (1985-1989) and Taliban (1994-2001) regimes. The participating women, from Hazara, Tajik and Pashtun tribal groups, expose multiple layers of gendered inequality because of strict patriarchy, and cultural ethnicity in Afghanistan. Their stories illustrate how Afghan women also traverse the western pre-determined and prevailing stereotypical perceptions of the Muslim Other.

Cultural anthropology; Womens studies; Sociology

(UMI)AAI10957287;Social sciences;Afghan women

Damer, Mouminat

Western Sydney University (Australia)

2083971000; 10957287

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[Thesis]

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