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The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan Cover Image Book Book

The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan

Nordberg, Jenny (author.).

Summary: "In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is a cause for celebration and the arrival of a daughter is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (literally translated from Dari as "dressed up like a boy") is a third kind of child--a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Norberg [...] constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom."--

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  • ISBN: 9780307952509 (trade paperback)
  • ISBN: 9780307952493 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Part One: Boys -- The Rebel Mother -- The Foreigner -- The Chose One -- The Son Maker -- The Politician -- The Underground Girls -- The Naughty One ; Part Two: Youth -- The Tomboy -- The Candidate -- The Pashtun Tea Party -- The Future Bride -- The Sisterhood ; Part Three: Men -- The Bodyguard -- The Romantic -- The Driver -- The Warrior -- The Refusers -- The Goddess -- Zoroastrianism Across The Globe ; Part Four: Fathers The Defeated -- The Castoff -- The Wife -- The Father ; Epilogue: One of the Boys ; Author's Note ; Notes ; Acknowledgments ; Index.

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Subject: Gender Identity -- Afghanistan
Sex role -- Afghanistan
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Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions

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Castlegar Public Library 305.309581 NOR (Text) 35146100006808 Non-Fiction Volume hold Available -
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