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

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	HQ1075.5.A3 N67 2014	Available	---

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.
	Gender identity.
	Afghanistan.
	Sex role -- Afghanistan.
	Sex role.
	Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.
	Male impersonators.
	Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
	Women.
	Social conditions.
	Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
	Girls.
	Girls -- Social conditions.
	Women -- Social conditions.
	Gender identity.
	Gender roles.
	Male impersonators.
	Women.
	Womyn.
	Girls.
ISBN	9780307952493 (hardcover)
	0307952495 (hardcover)
	9780307952516 (ebook)