| Description |
xvi, 169 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword: Lifting the Veil / Andre Velter -- Twenty Years Later: March 2001 -- Woman's Place: 1980 -- Marriage -- Motherhood -- Work -- From Mother to Daughter -- Pashtun Women Speak -- Afghan Women Today |
| Summary |
"Isabelle Delloye first made her way to Afghanistan as a teacher shortly before the Soviet invasion of 1980, and returned several times, including once as a journalist during the height of the Taliban's power. During each visit, she befriended and worked with hundreds of women from a variety of castes and tribes, gaining admittance to a world rarely glimpsed by Westerners. In Women of Afghanistan, Delloye lends a compassionate ear to their words, sharing two decades of political perspectives and intimate stories. Here she records the recollections of those like Nour Khanom, a rural child bride who lived a life of hard labor and was treated no better than a pack animal, and of Chekeba, who escaped amidst Soviet bombs and returned years later to build a school for girls in the Panshir Valley." -- BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Translation of: Des femmes d'Afghanistan |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
2003004047 |
| ISBN |
1886913595 |
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