The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
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An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl
In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost entirely by men, the birth of a son is 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 Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times, constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living
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Manufacturer: Crown
Release date: 16 September 2014
ISBN-10 : 0307952495 | ISBN-13: 9780307952493
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Release date: 16 September 2014
ISBN-10 : 0307952495 | ISBN-13: 9780307952493