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Kabul's Underground Girls: The Story of Afghan Women Living as Men

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Jenny Nordberg is a Swedish journalist based in New York City and a recipient of numerous awards. She won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the New York Times and was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for a television documentary about Afghan women.

Afghanistan is the worst and most dangerous place in the world for women.

Afghan women have virtually no rights, their own bodies are not their own, and their only value is the ability to bear sons.

Giving birth to a daughter means condemning oneself to constant humiliation at the hands of relatives.

Unable to bear a son, cornered, defenseless, and desperate women resort to a forced provocation. They pass off their daughters as boys, dressing and raising them as future men. Before puberty, this is the only and final time in a girl's life when she can feel free...

Almost everyone in Afghanistan knows about these fake sons, but turns a blind eye to them. After all, a dummy son is better than no son at all...
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