Suicidal Performances: Voicing Discontent in a Girls' Dormitory in Kabul

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 264-285

  Billaud, Julie ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotions; Gender; Performance; Resistance; Suicide

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LITERATURE; SUICIDE;

AFGHANISTAN; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; LITERATURE; SUICIDE;

EID: 84861235978     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9262-2     Document Type: Article

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