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unhappycamper

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Sat Mar 9, 2013, 07:45 AM Mar 2013

Overcoming Woman-Hatred in Afghanistan: 3 Stories

http://www.juancole.com/2013/03/overcoming-afghanistan-stories.html

Overcoming Woman-Hatred in Afghanistan: 3 Stories
Posted on 03/09/2013 by Juan

In honor of International Women’s Day, here is a short documentary on women in Afghanistan, focusing on three women who have achieved something in recent years, after Taliban rule was overthrown. The Taliban state was perhaps the most misogynistic in world history, which is fancy way of saying that they absolute hate women.


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Overcoming Woman-Hatred in Afghanistan: 3 Stories (Original Post) unhappycamper Mar 2013 OP
I'm going to send this to the Women's and gender studies center on campus BlancheSplanchnik Mar 2013 #1

BlancheSplanchnik

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1. I'm going to send this to the Women's and gender studies center on campus
Sat Mar 9, 2013, 08:28 AM
Mar 2013

where I work.

You would never know it's Women's History Month or International Women's Day or anything.. I don't understand it. Black History Month is a very big deal culminating in MLK day events.

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