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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Institution:	Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:	Azerbaijani
Subjects:	[Education, Feminist movements/Women's movements, Health, Human rights organizations, Cultural and sociocultural movements, Culture, Media and Arts] archiveUnit
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:06234ad4-bd13-4067-97ee-b7f76a275df3

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