Book of Hope for the Women & Girls Living Under the Taliban.
Arlington, VA: Feminist Majority Foundation, 1999. Paperback. [116]p., illustrations, oblong wraps. 8 x 9 in. Very Good.
Issued as part of the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, the book focuses on the dress code (especially the burqa) that the Taliban government required all women wear. Each page carries a photograph, quotation from an Afghan woman or a human rights advocate, and the name of a financial donor (Mavis and Jay Leno in the Platinum Circle of donors; others include Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, Matt Groening, and Barbara Streisand).
Cat.No: 327279
Price: $60.00
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