عنوان

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

Number

TL49963

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

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

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Annette Tzavaras

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Western Sydney University (Australia)

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2018

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

260

Text of Note

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

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

Western Sydney University (Australia)

Text preceding or following the note

2018

Text of Note

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

Subject Term

(UMI)AAI10957287;Social sciences;Afghan women

Damer, Mouminat

Western Sydney University (Australia)

Call Number

2083971000; 10957287

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[Thesis]

276903

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