Chavis, Melody Ermachild

Meena, heroine of Afghanistan : the martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan / Melody Ermachild Chavis ; foreword by Alice Walker - First edition - xii, 208 pages : map

Includes index.

Meena founded RAWA in 1977 as a 20 year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987. This is the story of her struggle for democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan as well as a portrait of a courageous mother, poet and leader who symbolizes an entire movement of women.

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Meena, 1957-1987


Women social reformers--Afghanistan--Biography

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