“Includes bibliography”—(pages 227-240).

Contents: Prologue : “if only you were born a boy”—Introduction : carnival of (post) war—Part I : phantom state building—Chapter 1. Queen Soraya’s portrait—Chapter 2. National women’s machinery : coaching lives in the ministry of women’s affairs—Chapter 3. Public and private faces of gender (in) justice—Part II : Bodies of resistance—Chapter 4. Moral panics, Indian soaps, and cosmetics : writing the nation on women’s bodies—Chapter 5. Strategic decoration : dissimulation, performance, and agency in an Islamic public space—Chapter 6. Poetic jihad : narratives of martyrdom, suicide, and suffering among afghan women—Conclusion : the carnival continues—Chronology—Notes—Bibliography—Index—Acknowledgments.

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