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2014

Format:	Book
Author:	Nordberg, Jenny.
Title:	The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
Description:	ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
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.
Subjects:	Gender identity -- Afghanistan. Sex role -- Afghanistan. Male impersonators -- Afghanistan. Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions. Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Notes:	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.
LCCN:	2014000295
ISBN:	9780307952493 (hardcover) 0307952495 (hardcover) 9780307952493 0307952495
Other Number:	851420427
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Control Number:	441805
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Call Number:	305.309 Nordberg

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