Benard, Cheryl, 1953-

Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance / Cheryl Benard in cooperation with Edit Schlaffer. - 1st ed. - New York : Broadway Books, c2002. - 293 p. ; 22 cm.

Ch. 1. Men, Boys and Dust -- Ch. 2. The Petal and the Rock: Meena -- Ch. 3. The Work of RAWA -- Ch. 4. "I Can Be a Sword": Life in the Underground -- Ch. 5. Shahla in November -- Ch. 6. Books and Flowers -- Ch. 7. RAWA and the Men's Question -- Ch. 8. Boxing with Hashemi -- Ch. 9. RAWA and Postmodern Politics -- Ch. 10. No Place at the Men's Table -- Ch. 11. Gender Apartheid and the Political Order.

0767913019 (alk. paper)

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Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.


Women--Political activity.--Afghanistan
Women--Social conditions.--Afghanistan
Women in Islam--Afghanistan.
Government, Resistance to--Afghanistan.

HQ1236.5.A3 / B45 2002

305.42/09581