We are still here : Afghan women on courage, freedom, and the fight to be heard / edited by Nahid Shahalimi ; [foreword by Margaret Atwood].

We are still here : Afghan women on courage, freedom, and the fight to be heard / edited by Nahid Shahalimi ; [foreword by Margaret Atwood].

Publication Date
2021-2022

Publication Information
[Toronto] : Penguin Canada,

Physical Description
179 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Women -- Biography.
 
Women -- Social conditions.
 
Women -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
 
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
 
Women's rights -- Afghanistan.

Geographic Term
Afghanistan -- History -- 2001-2021.
 
Afghanistan -- History -- 2021-
 
Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century.

Additional Contributors
Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
 
Shahalimi, Nahid, 1973-

Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179).

Summary
A collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban. After decades of significant progress, the prospects of women and girls in Afghanistan are once again dependent on radical Islamists who reject gender equality. When the United States announced the end of their twenty-year occupation and the Taliban seized control of the country on August 15th, 2021, so began a steep regression of social, political, and economic freedoms for women in the country. But just because a brutal regime has taken over doesn't mean Afghan women will stand by while their rights are stripped away.

Language
English

ISBN
9780735246003


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