The underground girls of Kabul
About this book
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.
Subjects
- afghanistan, social conditions
- flickor
- förtryck
- gender identity
- gender roles
- girls
- historia
- history
- könsidentitet
- könsroller
- kvinnor
- levnadsförhållanden
- living conditions
- male domination (social structure)
- male impersonators
- new york times reviewed
- oppression
- passing (identity)
- sex role
- social conditions
- transvestism
- women
- women, afghanistan
- women, social conditions