Title Pious peripheries : runaway women in post-Taliban Afghanistan / Sonia Ahsan-Titmizi

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) Contents The shelter -- Portraits of pain -- Poetic risk -- Taliban's women -- Pedagogies of womanhood -- Subject of honor Summary "The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women. Pious Peripheries examines women's resistance through groundbreaking fieldwork at a women's shelter in Kabul, home to runaway wives, daughters, mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. Whether running to seek marriage or divorce, enduring or escaping abuse, or even accused of singing sexually explicit songs in public, "promiscuous" women challenge the status quo-and once marked as promiscuous, women have few resources. This book provides a window into the everyday struggles of Afghan women as they develop new ways to challenge historical patriarchal practices. Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi explores how women negotiate gendered power mechanisms, notably those of Islam and Pashtunwali. Sometimes defined as an honor code, Pashtunwali is a discursive and material practice that women embody through praying, fasting, oral and written poetry, and participation in rituals of hospitality and refuge. In taking ownership of Pashtunwali and Islamic knowledge, in both textual and oral forms, women create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity in the margins of Afghan society. So doing, these women redefine the meanings of equality, honor, piety, and promiscuity in Afghanistan."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2021) Subject Runaway women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions Women, Pushtun -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions Muslim women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions Women -- Afghanistan -- Conduct of life Women -- Religious aspects -- Islam. Promiscuity -- Afghanistan HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia. Muslim women -- Social conditions Promiscuity Women -- Conduct of life Women, Pushtun -- Social conditions Women -- Religious aspects -- Islam Afghanistan Form Electronic book LC no. 2020037304 ISBN 1503614727 9781503614727

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