TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benard,Cheryl
AU  - Schlaffer,Edit
TI  - Veiled courage: inside the Afghan women's resistance 
SN  - 1740511662 (pbk.)
U1  - 305.42095 23
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Milsons Point, N.S.W.
PB  - Random House Australia
KW  - Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - fast
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Government, Resistance to
N1  - Includes index; 1. Men, boys and dust -- 2. The petal and the rock: Meena -- 3. The work of RAWA -- 4. "I can be a sword": life in the underground -- 5. Shahla in November -- 6. Books and flowers -- 7. RAWA and the men's question -- 8. Boxing with Hashemi --  9. RAWA and postmodern politics -- 10. No place at the men's table -- 11. Gender apartheid and the political order
N2  - "In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqa. A woman's slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was made by women. Veiled Courage reveals the remarkable bravery and spirit of the women of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring clandestine activities defied the forces of the Taliban and earned the world's fierce admiration." "If caught, any RAWA activist would have faced sure death. Yet they persisted. With the overthrow of the Taliban now a reality, RAWA faces a new challenge: defeating the powers of Islamic fundamentalism of which the Taliban are only one face and helping build a society in which women are guaranteed full human rights." "Cheryl Benard, an American sociologist and longtime adviser to RAWA, uses her inside access to write the first behind-the-scenes story of RAWA and its remarkably brave women. Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful light."--BOOK JACKET
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