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Misogyny in post-war Afghanistan: the changing frames of sexual and gender-based violence

Författare

  • Lida Ahmad
  • Priscyll Anctil

Summary, in English

Although the US and NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was ideologically justified under the banner of democracy and women’s rights, the latter issue has been completely forgotten within the public sphere since then. As the war has officially ended in Afghanistan, new forms of misogyny and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) have arisen. The ‘post-war’ Afghan context presents an institutional normalization of violence, favouring a culture of rape and impunity. The changing frames of violence against women are widely related to the political situation of the country: while public attention is focused on peace agreements, women’s issues are relegated to banalities and depicted as ‘everyday’ news. Meanwhile, new frames of SGBV appear as body part mutilation within marriage, forced prostitution, and increasing domestic violence, partly due to the growing consumption of opium but also to the perpetuation of powerful warlords in state structures. This article draws on gender studies to analyse the current misogynist culture in ‘post-war’ Afghanistan, framing the new forms of violence induced by successive armed conflicts. It relies on interviews conducted in 2013 in Afghanistan; and on secondary sources, mostly taken from the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan and Human Rights Watch reports.

Publiceringsår

2018

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

86-101

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Gender Studies

Volym

27

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • Afghanistan
  • Misogyny
  • Sexual and Gender-based Violence
  • Politics
  • Post-War
  • Local initiatives

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1465-3869