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Nordberg, Jenny.
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Gender identity -- Afghanistan.
Sex role -- Afghanistan.
Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
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Nordberg, Jenny.
Gender identity -- Afghanistan.
Sex role -- Afghanistan.
Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
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The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.
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Nordberg, Jenny.
Crown Publishers, 2014.
Call #:
305
.309581
N828u
Subjects
Gender identity -- Afghanistan.
Sex role -- Afghanistan.
Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
ISBN:
9780307952493 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
Contents:
Boys. The rebel mother ; The foreigner ; The chosen one ; The son maker ; The politician ; The underground girls ; The naughty one -- Youth. The tomboy ; The candidate ; The Pashtun Tea Party ; The future bride ; The sisterhood -- Men. The bodyguard ; The romantic ; The driver ; The warrior ; The refusers ; The goddess ; Zoroastrianism across the globe -- Fathers. The defeated ; The castoff ; The wife ; The father -- One of the boys.
Summary:
Reveals the secret Afghan custom to disguise girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
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