A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
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Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2020].
Physical Desc
xix, 235 pages ; 24 cm
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Medford Library Branch
302.2309 MAH 2020
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302.2309 MAH 2020
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Redwood Campus
CT1518 .B34 M34 2020
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CT1518 .B34 M34 2020
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Azeem, Fouzia.
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016 -- Death and burial.
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016.
Biographies.
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Honor killings -- Pakistan.
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Online social networks -- Pakistan.
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion.
Women in mass media -- Biography.
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016 -- Death and burial.
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016.
Biographies.
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Honor killings -- Pakistan.
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Online social networks -- Pakistan.
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion.
Women in mass media -- Biography.
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Published
Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2020].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
"First published in 2018 in India as The sensational life and death of Qandeel Baloch by Aleph Book Company."--Title page verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"In 2016, Pakistan's first social media celebrity, Qandeel Baloch, was murdered in a suspected honor killing. Her death quickly became a media sensation. It was both devastatingly routine and breathtakingly brutal, and in a new media landscape, it couldn't be ignored. Qandeel had courted attention and outrage with a talent for self-promotion that earned her comparisons to Kim Kardashian--and made her the constant victim of harassment and death threats. Social media and reality television exist uneasily alongside honor killings and forced marriages in a rapidly, if unevenly, modernizing Pakistan, and Qandeel Baloch's story became emblematic of the cultural divide. In this deftly reported and artfully told account, Sanam Maher reconstructs the story of Qandeel's life and explores the depth and range of her legacy from her impoverished hometown rankled by her infamy, to the aspiring fashion models who follow her footsteps, to the Internet activists resisting the same vicious online misogyny she faced. Maher depicts a society at a crossroads, where women serve as an easy scapegoat for its anxieties and dislocations, and teases apart the intrigue and myth-making of the Qandeel Baloch story to restore the humanity of the woman at its center"--,Publisher's description.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Maher, S. (2020). A woman like her: the story behind the honor killing of a social media star . Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Maher, Sanam. 2020. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star. Melville House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Maher, Sanam. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star Melville House, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Maher, Sanam. A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star Melville House, 2020.
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