Veiled Courage
Subtitle: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Broadway
Published: April 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780767913010
Subjects: Women; Social conditions; Political activity; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Women in Islam; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Current Affairs -International; History - Middle East; Social Science - Gender Studies; Afghanistan; Revolutionary Association of t
First sentence: Men, boys and dust. That was my initial impression when I first went to the Afghan border area in 1982, an expert in project design sent to assess the efficiency with which aid was being delivered to Afghan refugees by the international community.
Description: "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.