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Veiled threat : the hidden power of the women of Afghanistan / by Sally Armstrong.
Van Pelt Library HQ1735.6 .A76 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstrong, Sally, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Afghanistan.
- Women.
- Women in Islam--Afghanistan.
- Women in Islam.
- Sex discrimination against women--Afghanistan.
- Sex discrimination against women.
- Misogyny--Afghanistan.
- Misogyny.
- Government, Resistance to--Afghanistan.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Hidden power of the women of Afghanistan
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002.
- Summary:
- One of the first Western journalists to visit Afghanistan provides an insider's view of the plight of women there. She also reviews the ebb and flow of women's rights in the country and accuses the Taliban and other fundamentalist leaders of distorting Islam for political opportunism. 20 photos.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Toronto : Viking, 2002.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1568582528
- OCLC:
- 50693063
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