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The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.
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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- ISBN: 9780307952493 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0307952495 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: ix, 350 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2014]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-336) and index. |
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Subject: | Gender identity > Afghanistan. Sex role > Afghanistan. Male impersonators > Afghanistan. Women > Afghanistan > Social conditions. Girls > Afghanistan > Social conditions. |