-- Joining forces for democratic governance: women's alliance-building for post-war reconstruction in Central America / Ilja A …-Kuzmanović, Rada Drezgić, Dubravka Žarkov -- Post-war backlash violence against women: what can "masculinity" explain? / Donna …

The central objective of this paper is to put the discussion of women’s rights in Afghanistan in the context of the … securing women’s rights in the troubled history of state-building and state-society relations in Afghanistan. The latter were … within it. Attempts at modernization, including the expansion of women’s rights, were instigated by a male state elite whose …