Women in Afghanistan
Free Internet Resources:
United Kingdom. "Amnesty International. Afghanistan: Women Still Under Attack--a Systematic Failure to Protect." Amnesty International Publications, 2005. Accessed 29 July 2006 http://web.amnesty.org/library/pdf/ASA110072005ENGLISH/$File/ASA1100705.pdf
RAWA - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. Accessed 31 July 2006 http://www.rawa.org/
Periodical Articles:
Moghadam, Valentine M. "Patriarchy, the Taleban, and Politics of Public Space in Afghanistan." Women’s Studies International Forum 25.1 (2002/0): 19-31.
Books:
Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam : Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Call number: HQ1784 .A67 1992
Armstrong, Sally. Veiled Threat : The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002. Call number: HQ1735.6 .A76 2002
Barlas, Asma. "Believing Women" in Islam : Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran. 1st ed. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002. Call number: BP173.4 .B35 2002
Haddad, Yvonne Yazbeck, and John L. Esposito. Islam, Gender, & Social Change. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Call number: BP173.4 .I73 1998
Iacopino, Vincent, and Physicians for Human Rights. The Taliban's War on Women : A Health and Human Rights Crisis in Afghanistan. Boston: Physicians for Human Rights, 1998. Call number: HQ1735.6 .T35 1998
Logan, Harriet. Unveiled : Voices of the Women of Afghanistan. 1st ed. New York: ReganBooks, 2002. Call number: HQ1735.6 .L64 2002
Skaine, Rosemarie. The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2002. Call number: HQ1735.6,S39 2992
Yasgur, Batya Swift. Behind the Burqa : Our Life in Afghanistan and how we Escaped to Freedom. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. Call number: DS371.3.Y37 2992
Videos:
Afghanistan Unveiled. Dir. Brault, Brigitte, Distributed by Women Make Movies, 2003. Call number: Video Cassette 11599
Behind the Veil. Dir. Lobo, Ricardo, Jojo Sydenham, and Films for the Humanities. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2001. Call number: Video cassette 9933
Cut from Different Cloth: Burqas and Beliefs. Dir. Orloff, Cliff, and Olga Shalygin. Prod. Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin. Perf. Rasuli, Hasina and Serina Orloff. DVD-R. Red Door Video Productions, 2005. Call number: Video DVD 12591

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