The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.
An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
Record details
- ISBN: 0307952495
- ISBN: 9780307952493
- Physical Description: ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- 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.
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An award-winning foreign correspondent who contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times series reveals the secret Afghan custom of disguising girls as boys to improve their prospects, discussing its political and social significance as well as the experiences of its practitioners.
