Underground Girls of Kabul

In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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Jenny Nordberg: Underground Girls of Kabul (2014, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)

320 pages

English language

Published Jan. 22, 2014 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-7481-2955-3
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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.

6 editions

Subjects

  • Sex role
  • Women, social conditions
  • Women, afghanistan
  • Girls
  • Gender identity
  • Afghanistan, social conditions
  • Passing (identity)