The politics of gender and reconstruction in Afghanistan: Old dilemmas or new challenges?

Gendered Peace: Women's Struggles for Post-War Justice and Reconciliation

Volumn 9780203939130, Issue , 2012, Pages 155-186

  Kandiyoti, Deniz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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