The politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: lessons for improving Afghan women's status / Sbireen Khan Burki -- Between covered and covert: traditions, stereotypes, and Afghan women's agency / Margaret A. Mills -- Centuries of threat, centuries of resistance: the lessons of Afghan women's resilience / Anne E. Brodsky -- Don't say what, who, and when, say how: community development and women / Wahid Omar -- Afghanistan blues: seeing beyond the Burqa on Youtube / Dinah Zeiger -- "Women's political presence: a path to promoting gender interests? / Anna Larson -- Voices of parliamentarians: four women MPs share their thoughts / Massouda Jalal ... [et al.] -- Nothing left to lose: women in prison / Lizette Potgieter -- Selling sex in Afghanistan: portraits of sex workers in Kabul / Alisa Tang -- Between choice and force: marriage practices in Afghanistan / Deborah J. Smith -- The hidden war against women: health care in Afghanistan / Sima Samar -- Challenges to cripple the spirit: a midwife's experiences / Pamela Chandler -- Women with disabilities: recollections from across the decades / Mary Macmakin -- A question of access: women and food security / Elizabeth Stites -- Psychological impacts of war: human rights and mental health / Nahid Aziz -- Mending Afghanistan stitch by stitch: how traditional crafts and social organization advance Afghan women / Rachel Lehr -- Rural women's livelihood: their position in the agrarian economy / Jo Grace, Adam Pain -- Chadari politics: translating perceptions into policy and practice / Lina Abirafeh -- When the picture does not fit the frame: engaging afghan men in women's empowerment / Ashraf Zahedi -- Empowering women through education: recipe for success / Sakena Yacoobi -- From both sides of the mic: women and the media / Aunohita Mojumdar -- Painting their way into the public world: women and the visual arts / Lauryn Oates -- A hidden discourse: Afghanistan's women poets / Zuzanna Olszewska -- Hopes and dreams: interviews with young Afghans / Amina Kator.

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