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 Nov. 12, 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.

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I'm halfway to my 2022 #FReadom goal of reading 20 books challenged/threatened in Texas libraries & schools. Book 10 was The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg, a journalistic exploration of girls in Afghanistan who are raised/presented as boys. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213715/the-underground-girls-of-kabul-by-jenny-nordberg

When we frame identity formation as "nature vs nurture," we overlook many factors that are neither natural nor nurturing: power, inequality, violence. Nordberg's reporting shows that expression of gender can be expression of resistance, of self-determination, of freedom.

Subjects

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