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Author Nordberg, Jenny.

Title The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.

Publication Info. New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.3 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.3095 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.3095 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  305.3095 NOR    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  305.3 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  305.3095 NOR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  305.3 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  305.3 NOR    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.3095 NORDBERG    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.3 NOR    Check Shelf

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 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.
Subject Gender identity -- Afghanistan.
Sex role -- Afghanistan.
Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
ISBN 9780307952493 (hardcover)
0307952495 (hardcover)
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