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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Nordberg, Jenny.     Subjects     Gender identity -- Afghanistan.     Sex role -- Afghanistan.     Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.     Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.     Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Nordberg, Jenny.       by title:      The underground girl...         MARC Display

The underground girls of Kabul [electronic resource] : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg. by Nordberg, Jenny. New York : Crown, 2014. Subjects Gender identity -- Afghanistan.   Sex role -- Afghanistan.   Male impersonators -- Afghanistan.   Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.   Girls -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=E9DD5F7C-0B66-46F3-BA44-80A128E5E723 This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource https://samples.overdrive.com/underground-girls-of-e9dd5f?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{E9DD5F7C-0B66-46F3-BA44-80A128E5E723}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780307952516 (electronic bk.) 0307952517 (electronic bk.) Description:  1 online resource. Requests:  0 Summary:  An investigative journalist uncovers a hidden Afghan custom that will change your understanding of what it means to grow up as a girl. Expanding on her widely read New York Times article "Afghan Boys Are Prized, So Girls Live the Part," in which she uncovered the phenomenon of bacha posh (literally "dressed up like a boy" in Dari), the practice of disguising and raising young girls as boys, Jenny Nordberg constructs a powerful and moving account of the long-standing tradition that has enabled many girls to counter the challenges they face in a deeply segregated society where they have almost no rights. Through extensive in-depth reporting and first-person interviews, Nordberg offers a fascinating, almost fairy-tale-like look at how girls can be willed into looking, behaving, and acting as boys, why mothers would ask that of their daughters, and what ultimately happens when some girls do not want to rescind the prerogatives that go along with living as boys, and later as men. Divided into four parts, following strong characters through childhood, puberty, married life, and childbirth, The Underground Girls of Kabul charts the entire life cycle of Afghan women and gets to the heart of how bacha posh has profoundly affected generations, not only in the greater historical and political context of Afghanistan but also what it means to women everywhere now.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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