Cultural and International Dissonance on Girls Empowerment: the Case of Afghanistan’s Female Son
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Title
Cultural and International Dissonance on Girls Empowerment: the Case of Afghanistan’s Female Son
Description
Bacha Posh is a Dari term which literary means “girls dressed as boys. Girls who were born in a family without son must disguise themselves as boys under social or economic pressure. This arrangement end when the girl reaches puberty as she has to turn back to her birth gender and get married. This article underlines incongruence between international discourse and cultural discourse on girl child. International community often depicts girl child as helpless population with very limited capacity and agency. Bacha Posh is proving just the opposite. They serve as a portrayal of Afghan girls who cleverly resisting the rigid societal norms in the fragile country where having sons equal security. Through the lives of the bacha posh, this article wishes to unveil what it means to be girls in the post-war Afghanistan where the international community has persistently been trying to teach Afghans about gender and human rights.
Creator
Sawitri, Made Yaya
Source
AEGIS : Journal of International Relations; Vol 2, No 1 (2017): September 2017 - February 2018
2548-4532
2541-1373
Publisher
President University
Date
2017-09-15
Rights
Copyright (c) 2018 AEGIS : Journal of International Relations
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Citation
Made Sawitri Yaya, Cultural and International Dissonance on Girls Empowerment: the Case of Afghanistan’s Female Son, President University, 2017, accessed November 21, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/746