Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance by Cheryl Benard, Edit Schlaffer

Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance

Cheryl Benard, Edit Schlaffer

304 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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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...

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