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April 1986 Issue
April 1986 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • Sudan: A Microcosm of Africa's Ills
    Robert D. Kaplan
  • The Amazon of Peshawar
    John Keegan
  • Do We Need to Be No. 1?
    David M. Gordon
  • My Mother's Clothes: The School of Beauty and Shame
    Richard Mccann
  • Feather Bag, Stick Bag
    Kim R. Stafford
  • Ballistics
    Guy Billout

Pakistan: The Amazon of Peshawar

In which an Englishman explores the frontiers of feminism

By John Keegan
April 1986 Issue
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