The Underground Girls of Kabul

Description:

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: Sex role,  Male impersonators,  Social conditions,  Gender identity,  Girls,  Women,  New York Times reviewed,  Women, social conditions,  Women, afghanistan,  Afghanistan, social conditions,  Passing (identity),  Flickor,  Levnadsförhållanden,  Förtryck,  Transvestism,  Historia,  Könsroller,  Könsidentitet,  Living conditions,  Oppression,  History,  Gender roles,  Kvinnor

Places: Afghanistan