The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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Originally published in hardcover in slightly different form in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2014.

“But Not an Afghan Woman” by Roya first appeared on AWWProject.org, the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (March 7, 2010). Reprinted here by permission of the author.

“I Was a Bacha Posh: The Story of Faheema” originally appeared on Time.com in slightly different format.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nordberg, Jenny.
The underground girls of Kabul: in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan / Jenny Nordberg.—First edition.
pages cm
1. Gender Identity—Afghanistan. 2. Sex role—Afghanistan. 3. Male impersonators—Afghanistan. 4. Women—Afghanistan—Social conditions. 5. Girls—Afghanistan—Social conditions. I. Title.
HQ1075.5.A3N67 2014
305.309581—dc23 2014000295

ISBN 978-0-307-95250-9
eBook ISBN 978-0-307-95251-6

Cover design by Elena Giavaldi
Cover photography by Adam Ferguson

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