Depiction of the lives of woman in Islamic Fundamentalist countries.
There's a scene that's stayed with me for years, from the animated film The Breadwinner: a headstrong young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan cuts her hair, binds herself flat, and learns to walk like a boy, all so she can walk out the door and earn a wage her family can't survive without. It's a quiet kind of desperation, dressed up as courage. And it's not really about Afghanistan at all. It's about what happens to a woman the moment she tries to do a man's job to stay alive. It reminded me o