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I am a bacha posh my life as a woman living as a man in Afghanistan

Manoori, Ukmina (author.). Lebrun, Stephanie, (author.). Chianchiano, Peter E., Jr., (translator.).

Summary: The author recounts how she spent her childhood in Afghanistan as a bacha posh, a girl dressed as a boy as part of a common practice that allowed her to act as a son, but then defied the custom of reverting to behaving as a woman in adolescence.

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  • ISBN: 9781632200013
  • ISBN: 1632200015
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
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  • Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014]

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Subject: Manoori, Ukmina
Women -- Political activity -- Afghanistan
Women -- Afghanistan -- Biography
Gender identity -- Afghanistan
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
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