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In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman's slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was made by women. Veiled Courage reveals the remarkable bravery and spirit of the women of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring clandestine activities defied the forces of the Taliban and earned the world's fierce admiration. The complete subordination of women was one of the first acts of the Taliban. But the women of RAWA refused to cower. They used the burqa to their advantage, secretly photographing Taliban beatings and executions, and posting the gruesome pictures on their multi-language website, rawa.org, which is read around the world. They organized to educate girls and women in underground schools and to run small businesses in the border towns of Pakistan that allowed widows to support their families. If caught, any RAWA activist would have faced sure death. Yet they persisted. With the overthrow of the Taliban now a reality, RAWA faces a new challenge: defeating the powers of Islamic fundamentalism of which the Taliban are only one face and helping build a society in which women are guaranteed full human rights. Cheryl Benard, an American sociologist and an important advisor to RAWA, uses her inside access to write the first behind-the-scenes story of RAWA and its remarkably brave women. Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful light. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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In a website linked to RAWA, there was a review of the book Bleeding Afghanistan, which claims that Afghanistan women were exploited by the US government? I am guessing this is in reference to all the news reports about women being set free by the overturning of the Taliban, i.e., America, Deliverer of Freedpom and Democracy, but am not sure. (The book is not at SPL, so I haven't read it yet.)
The chapter about the exclusion of RAWA representatives at the 2001 Afghan peace talks at Bonn was particularl.y noteworthy.
Cheryl Benard's husband, Zalmay Khalilzad, was in the National Security Council and Bush's presidential convoy to Afghanistan. I wondered if she would feel free to criticize American policy. She did, but quietly.
I wonder about Sakena Yacoobi, who recently spoke in Seattle. On her web site she also claims that hers is the first organization in Afghanistan to offer education and other such services for women, etc. But she never mentions RAWA.
Finally, I do have to take exception to CB's argument about the lack of visible heroines in the world, the place of women in history, and her idea that women's groups are more likely to splinter than men's. ( )