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Blue Ghosts : Women's Rights in Afghanistan
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- Summary
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After the September 11 attacks the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, citing the liberation of the region's women as part of the justification for Operation Enduring Freedom. Five weeks later Laura Bu...
After the September 11 attacks the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, citing the liberation of the region's women as part of the justification for Operation Enduring Freedom. Five weeks later Laura Bush triumphantly stated that "because of our recent gains in Afghanistan, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes." But had anything really changed? As Suraya Pakzad, director of Afghan Voice of Women put it, "Village men will still trade a daughter for a dog." In this powerful program Pakzad discusses her country's ongoing struggle for women's rights. Viewers also hear from Western policy experts, and from male Afghan officials who deny that social, educational, and economic discrimination against the female half of their population remains a problem.
Details
- Creator
- Deriva Films
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2013], c2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col
- digital
- data file
- OCLC
- ocn872343614
- Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on December 07, 2013.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- System requirements: FOD playback platform.
- Portions with English subtitles.
- Differing Perspectives on Women (2:15) -- Women's Rights as War Justification (2:04) -- Dangers for Women in Afghanistan (3:05) -- Source of Social Change (3:48) -- Women and Afghan Hospitals (1:59) -- Filmmaker (2:41) -- Women in Art (2:11) -- Women in Government (2:22) -- State of Afghan Women (0:54) -- Women in Politics (0:56) -- Informing Afghan Women (1:16) -- Violence Against Women (2:09) -- Women Abused (2:48) -- Forced Marriage (2:09) -- Authorities Side with Abusers (2:54) -- Sharia Law (3:07) -- Koran and Women (2:02) -- Divorce (0:50) -- Self-Immolation (4:05) -- Women's Commercial Activity (2:26) -- Reconstruction Money (4:08) -- Failure to Improve Lives (1:16) -- Credits: Blue Ghosts: Women's Rights in Afghanistan (2:36)