by Emily Schneider, Foreign Policy, USA – It should be inspiring to find out that there is a movement in Afghanistan to resist the country’s deeply ingrained gender norms that treat women so poorly, which seems to be the story that Jenny Nordberg is set on telling in her fascinating book, The Underground Girls of Kabul, as she investigates the centuries-old tradition of bacha posh (Dari for “dressed up like a boy”). Nordberg defines bacha posh as a “historical and present-day rejection of patriarchy by those who refuse to accept the ruling order for themselves and their daughters.” But is it?
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