Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter
The traditional Azerbaijani wedding wish serves as the title to this film and appears to be just a flowery ritual formula. Yet the colorful ethnographic scenes reveal a tragedy that has lasted since time immemorial. In this patriarchal society, girls are unwanted and "useless". In the past...
| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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| Language: | Azerbaijani |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:06234ad4-bd13-4067-97ee-b7f76a275df3 |
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| description | The traditional Azerbaijani wedding wish serves as the title to this film and appears to be just a flowery ritual formula. Yet the colorful ethnographic scenes reveal a tragedy that has lasted since time immemorial. In this patriarchal society, girls are unwanted and "useless". In the past, new-born girls were often simply killed; yet, since the development of ultrasound, women have been compelled to seek abortions. Such an attitude towards women occasionally results in terrible family tragedies, one of which shook Azerbaijan a few years ago. This film is part of the Gender Montage: Paradigms in Post Soviet Space film series.
Ali-Isa Dzhabbarov |
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| id | bulk_4A03353E-5AC7-4836-BB20-4967D5D5A228 |
| institution | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| language | Azerbaijani |
| spellingShingle | Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter [Education, Feminist movements/Women's movements, Health, Human rights organizations, Cultural and sociocultural movements, Culture, Media and Arts] |
| title | Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter |
| topic | [Education, Feminist movements/Women's movements, Health, Human rights organizations, Cultural and sociocultural movements, Culture, Media and Arts] |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:06234ad4-bd13-4067-97ee-b7f76a275df3 |