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Models and Realities of Afghan Womanhood:
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In order to conceptualise what human rights can signify for women in the dominantly rural society that is Afghanistan, it is necessary to understand the models and stereotypes available to them in recent history and how these have been reworked in every day life.
This paper examines three developments presented in chronological order with reference to the present situation in Afghanistan. First, we examine the spectrum of contradictory models and stereotypes taken from religion and politics that have moulded perceptions of women in Afghan society. Second, we explore how fundamentalism triumphed over the progressive forces. Finally, we elucidate change and resistance to change that have affected predominantly Pashtun female Afghan refugees living in Pakistan, in cities and especially in refugee camps in the NWFP (the North Western Frontier Province) between the late 1970s and 2005, that is to say in the wake of two major foreign military interventions, the first by the Soviet Union (1979) and the second by the US led coalition (2001).
Article File Carol Mann.pdf
Author(s) Carol Mann
Publication date January 2006
Publication Location Paris
Series SHS Research Papers
Keywords women, Afghanistan




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