The underground girls of Kabul : the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys

Nordberg, Jenny

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index 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
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Physical Description: ix, 350 pages, 24 cm
MARC Record: 60 p, col. ill
SubTitle: the hidden lives of Afghan girls disguised as boys
MARC Import date: 438 p
Location edition Bar Code due date
Non-Fiction B0014922
Dewey:305.309
ISBN:9781844087747
pub:2014
Type:
Subjects
Gender identity - Afghanistan
Sex role - Afghanistan
Male impersonators - Afghanistan
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions
Girls - Afghanistan - Social conditions
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