a| FL Record f| 0302

a| Dzhabbarov, Ali-Isa, e| director.

a| Wishing for Seven Sons and One Daughter

a| VHS (26 min.)

a| Moving image

a| 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.

a| Documentary films

c| 31058 d| 31058

a| Azerbaijan, c| 2002.

a| eng j| eng

0| 0 1| 0 4| 0 5| 0 7| 0 8| FL 9| 90060 a| FL b| FL d| 2016-11-25 l| 0 r| 2016-11-25 w| 2016-11-25 y| VHS

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c| In the Research Room