free ebook The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan PDF
By Jenny Nordberg
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“Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’” –Helen Exley
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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 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 Nordb...
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