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Article: Afghan women and transnational feminism.
- Article from:
- The Middle East Women's Studies Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
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It is widely known that the Taleban instituted a harsh and bizarre theocratic dictatorship, with a gender regime that was particularly severe on women (though men also suffered). What is less well known is how and why the Taleban emerged, the role and responsibility of the United States--as well as Pakistan, Iran, and Saudi Arabia--in the subversion of a reformist, modernizing regime (the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan or DRA, 1978-1992) and the proliferation, of arms and narcotics, the extent of the human rights and women's rights tragedies that occurred during the Mujahidin era (1992-96) as well as under the Taleban, and the sordid details concerning a planned oil ...