The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

✍ Scribed by Nordberg, Jenny

• Book ID: 108643708
• Publisher: Crown/Archetype
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307952493

✦ Synopsis

An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden custom that will transform your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl

In 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 kind of child -- a girl temporarily raised as a boy and presented as such to the outside world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this phenomenon for the New York Times , constructs a powerful and moving account of those secretly living on the other side of a deeply segregated society where women have almost no rights and little freedom.
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The Underground Girls of Kabul_ is anchored by vivid characters who bring this remarkable story to life: Azita, a female parliamentarian who sees no other choice but to turn her fourth daughter Mehran into a boy;...