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 |