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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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
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Azerbaijan
2002
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:0e2557c6-be6d-4923-8cd8-6682c92552cd |
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| author2 | Dzhabbarov, Ali-Isa |
| author_facet | Dzhabbarov, Ali-Isa |
| collection | OSA Film Library |
| dateSpan | 2002 |
| 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 made by The Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute - Russia and the Gender Policy Institute. |
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| geographic | Azerbaijan |
| id | bulk_8AFDF6EF-D8E9-4E58-9CC8-AFA5F9623654 |
| institution | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| publishDate | 2002 |
| publisher | Azerbaijan |
| spellingShingle | Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter [Documentary film] |
| title | Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter |
| topic | [Documentary film] |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:0e2557c6-be6d-4923-8cd8-6682c92552cd |