Underground girls Kabula. The story of Afghan women who live in men"s guise
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About the author:
Jenny Nordberg - a Swedish journalist living in New York, laureate of many awards. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the New York Times. She was awarded the Robert Kennedy award for a television documentary about Afghan women.
About the book:
Afghanistan is the worst and most dangerous place in the world for women.
Afghanists have practically no rights, they do not belong to their own body, and their only value is the ability to give birth to sons.
To give birth to a daughter - means to find yourself on constant humiliation by relatives.
Unable to give birth to a son - corrupted and desperate women, defenseless and desperate, go to a forced provocation. They give their daughters as boys - dress and raise them as future men. Before the onset of puberty, this is the only thing and recently in the life of girls when they can feel free ...
Almost everyone in Afghanistan knows about such falsehoods, but closes their eyes on this. After all, the dummy son is better than at all ...
reviews
"There should be a son in the Afghan family. At any cost". - BBC
"In this book - the stories of real Afghan women and the ruthless truth about traditions so cruel that they seem implausible. - Andrey Serenko, leading expert at the Center for the Study of Modern Afghanistan (Tsis)
Jenny Nordberg - a Swedish journalist living in New York, laureate of many awards. The winner of the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the New York Times. She was awarded the Robert Kennedy award for a television documentary about Afghan women.
About the book:
Afghanistan is the worst and most dangerous place in the world for women.
Afghanists have practically no rights, they do not belong to their own body, and their only value is the ability to give birth to sons.
To give birth to a daughter - means to find yourself on constant humiliation by relatives.
Unable to give birth to a son - corrupted and desperate women, defenseless and desperate, go to a forced provocation. They give their daughters as boys - dress and raise them as future men. Before the onset of puberty, this is the only thing and recently in the life of girls when they can feel free ...
Almost everyone in Afghanistan knows about such falsehoods, but closes their eyes on this. After all, the dummy son is better than at all ...
reviews
"There should be a son in the Afghan family. At any cost". - BBC
"In this book - the stories of real Afghan women and the ruthless truth about traditions so cruel that they seem implausible. - Andrey Serenko, leading expert at the Center for the Study of Modern Afghanistan (Tsis)
Author:
Author:Нордберг Дженни
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:Social Science & Politics
- Category:Magazines & Encyclopedia
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:newspaper
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-04-175259-0
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