With All Our Strength

The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Author: Anne E. Brodsky
ISBN: 9780415950596

The members of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) have risked life and limb daily to help their tortured sisters in Afghanistan and Pakistan since 1977. With All Our Strength is the inside story of this female-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, often tragic, lives of Afghan women under some of the most brutal sexist oppression in the world. A skilled interviewer, observer, and writer, Brodsky chronicles how RAWA members, whose identities have been concealed in order to survive, have run schools and orphanages, supplied medical care in secret, and covertly documented fundamentalist atrocities against Afghan women through cameras hidden in their clothes. Since the toppling of the Taliban, RAWA continues its important work, helping women survive not only th

Publisher: Psychology Press
Publish Date: 2004

Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Middle Eastern)