Reason, Desire, and Sexuality: The Meaning of Gender in Northern AfghanistanThis article by AUDREY C. SHALINSKY discusses the lives of men and women during the year in which the citizen of Uzbekistan was migrated from Uzbekistan to Northern Afghanistan known as Muhajiren. The article “The meaning of gender in northern Afghanistan” talks about the lives of men and women, sexual relationships and the prohibition of sexuality in the Islamic religion, it also sees gender as symbolic meanings mediated and interpreted through experience and discourse social. AUDREY C. SHALINSKY also talks about the two interrelated sets of gender which are the symbolic statements about the nature of men and women and the other symbolic statements about the interaction between men and women. Likewise the author finally mentioned the ideas about marriage, the veil and adultery. This article also talks about Alimaste's “witch figure,” the statements about a woman's passionate and uncontrolled nature. In the analysis, this article focuses on the traditions, norms, values ​​and attitudes, as well as Islamic rule and current society of Afghanistan. This data was selected during the year 1976-1977 in Kundoz, a province of Afghanistan located in the north of Afghanistan. The Islamic terms used in this article are nafs, aql and fitna and there were mosques that educated both men and women about these Islamic theories. This article also deals with good women and bad women and describes the meaning of good and bad. Furthermore, the author discussed the Islamic theory of the individual and gender for the first time. In this theory the Muhajirin who are the migrants of Uzbekistan used three terms, which are aql, nafs and fitna and they learned these terms in the mosques i...... middle of the paper ......or sisters and a brother. Because it is something common that happens in rural areas of Afghanistan nowadays. We have many stories of teenage girls being raped by such powerful and rich people in the distant provinces of Afghanistan. And in the book it is mentioned that the girl is blamed, harassed and punished harshly for the sin or crime that she did not commit. It's too similar to the lives of today's teenagers and younger girls in Afghanistan. Who, their families, do they sell for money or in gambling to powerful and rich people? Not only this, but the idea that women do not receive education. However, Afghan women suffering from the same problems are a province away and are barred from accessing education. However, it is not prohibited in Islam and the Quran states equal education for women and men. But traditionalists use their ideologies and prevent women from receiving education.