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| Genre/Form: | Personal narratives |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ellis, Deborah, 1960- Women of the Afghan War. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000 (OCoLC)655234157 |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Ellis |
| ISBN: | 0275966178 9780275966171 |
| OCLC Number: | 42680560 |
| Description: | xxvii, 241 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Chronology of Moments from Afghan Women's History -- Chronology of Events Leading Up to the Soviet Invasion -- The Response -- Friends -- The Russians in Afghanistan -- Russian Women in Afghanistan -- Afghans in Russia -- Holy Warriors -- Rockets' Red Glare -- The Taliban -- Camp Life -- Health -- Crazy in Three Languages -- Education -- Child Bride -- Mothers and Daughters -- Princess -- Pavement Women -- A Walk in the Park -- Mightier than the Sword -- Help -- Far from Home -- Fighting Back -- International Women's Day -- Organizations that Work with and for Afghan Women. |
| Responsibility: | Deborah Ellis. |
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"Women of the Afghan War serves the highest purpose of reporting; it gives a voice to those who have been silenced and an audience for their words. Deborah Ellis' riveting book gives us the true experience of Afghan women living under the Taliban system of Gender Apartheid and leaves the reader asking the most important question we can ask ourselves: How can I know this and do nothing?'"-Mavis Leno Chair Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan Feminist Majority Foundation Read more...
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- Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
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- Taliban.
- Oral history.
- Islamisme -- Afghānistān.
- Femmes -- Afghānistān -- Conditions sociales.
- Histoire orale.
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- Afghānistān -- Histoire -- 1989-
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