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The Underground Girls of Kabul

In Afghan culture, there is a hidden practice called "bacha posh," in which parents raise their daughters as sons to afford them the freedom denied to them as females and to protect family status. Award-winning journalist Jenny Nordberg chronicles the phenomenon in, "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan."