The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girlIn 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...
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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 girlIn 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 k
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780307952509 (0307952509)
ASIN: 307952509
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
An amazing book club discussion book that had our group deep in discussion for 2 hours in which all the members contributed to one of the most passionate discussions our group has ever held.I kept thinking as we all sat around the table discussing Afghan culture and Western culture. What if 12 Afgh...
Reading Jenny Nordberg’s The Underground Girls of Kabul was a lot like reading Sophie’s Choice or Uncle Tom’s Cabin. There’s not a lot of similarity between the three books, content- or style-wise. Sophie’s Choice and Uncle Tom’s Cabin are fiction; The Underground Girls of Kabul is based on the auth...
This is a hugely interesting subject, particularly given that the girls dressed as boys were in Afghanistan, where the segregation between men and women is so extreme. How then, is it possible for girls to pretend to be boys for many years, enjoying the same freedoms that boys enjoy? How is it that ...
This book was written by Jenny Nordberg and was an excellent piece of investigative journalism because the book was based on her actual interviews with women who lived part of their lives as boys, in Afghanistan. Gender roles and how they vary around the world has always been an interesting topic ...
Like many New York Times readers, I read Nordberg’s first article on girls disguised as boys in Afghanistan and was fascinated. It’s a topic that deserved a book, and fortunately Nordberg went deeper and wrote one. This book relates many stories of girls disguised as boys, and women disguised as m...
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