Blind Chickens and Social Animals

Blind Chickens and Social Animals:
Creating Spaces for Afghan Women's Narratives under the Taliban, by Anna M. Pont

Retail Price: $15.00

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This timely study, authored by Anna M. Pont, Mercy Corps’ Community Development Specialist for Afghanistan/Pakistan, explores the role of gender in Afghanistan today and reveals the complexity of women's position there.

Professor of Education, Zaher Wahab, of Lewis and Clark College comments, "Here is a sound ethnography where 'the informants' are treated as subjects of/in their lives and coauthors of the final text without the ethnocentic/Eurocentric mediation of the naive liberal intellectual or do-gooder 'helper'. The book will be very useful reading in introductory women's studies, area studies, and/or orientation programs for workers intending work in the Pashtoon areas in Afghanistan.

Dr. Cara Ungar of the Oregon Historical Society writes, "At a time when unfounded assumptions about Afghan culture circulate widely both in the media and everyday conversation, it is crucial that we turn to the credible sources of information, turn to the people themselves, to understand how they see their lives."