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An investigative journalist uncovers a concealed custom that will transform your understanding of what this means to expand up as a girl. In Afghanistan, a culture ruled almost totally by men, the delivery of a son is cause for special event and the appearance of a princess is often mourned as misfortune. A bacha posh (practically translated from Dari as dressed up just like a guy) is a third kind of child - a girl temporarily increased as a guy and presented so to the exterior world. Jenny Nordberg, the reporter who broke the story of this sensation for the New York Times, constructs a robust and moving bill of these secretly living on the other hand of a deeply segregated culture where women have minimal privileges and little independence. The Underground Ladies of Kabul is anchored by stunning heroes who bring this impressive story to life: Azita, a lady parliamentarian who perceives no other choice but to turn her fourth princess Mehran into a guy; Zahra, the tomboy teen who struggles with puberty and refuses her parents' tries to turn her back to a girl; Shukria, now a married mom of three after living for twenty years as a guy; and Nader, who prays with Shahed, the undercover female officer, as they both stay in male disguise as adults. At the heart of this emotional narrative is a new perspective on the extreme sacrifices of Afghan women and young ladies resistant to the violent backdrop of America's longest conflict. Divided into four parts, the book follows those born as the unwanted making love in Afghanistan, but who live as the socially favored gender through youth and puberty, only to later have no choice but into matrimony and childbirth. The Underground Ladies of Kabul charts their dramatic life cycles, while evaluating our own history and the parallels to subversive actions of individuals who live under oppression almost everywhere.
