Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

Featured Items

These books investigate women's lives in Afghanistan and Muslim women around the globe.

Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan in a Time of Western Intervention

Author

Ben Walter

Description

Year

2017

Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan

Author

Eileen Rivers

Description

Focuses on three members of Female Engagement Teams, who fought in combat and gathered intelligence on the Taliban from Afghan women.

Year

2018

The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief

Author

Jennifer L. Fluri and Rachel Lehr

Description

Year

2017

Women, Insecurity, and Violence in a Post-9/11 World

Author

Bronwyn Winter

Description

Year

2017

Veil

Author

Rafia Zakaria

Description

Year

2017

Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations: A Filmographic Study of 21st Century Features from Eight Countries

Author

Patricia R. Owen

Description

Covers Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and Turkey.

Year

2018

Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice

Editor

John Idriss Lahai and Khanyisela Moyo

Description

Includes case studies of Afghanistan, Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Kenya, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Peru, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Timor-Leste, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Yemen.

Year

2018

Gender, Orientalism, and the "War on Terror": Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics

Author

Maryam Khalid

Description

Focuses on gendered and racialized discourse used by the George W. Bush administration beginning in 2001 to legitimize US military action in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Year

2017

Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History

Editor

Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain

Description

Year

2017

Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress

Author

Elizabeth Bucar

Description

Surveys women's clothing and related customs in the Muslim-majority cities of Istanbul, Tehran, and Yogyakarta through the author's first-hand experiences.

Year

2017