Victims of a vicious system: Women, violence, and human rights

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dc.contributor.authorImran, Rahaten
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-27T09:31:33Z
dc.date.available2023-10-27T09:31:33Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-23en
dc.description.abstractThis chapter explores the Cinema of Accountability category to focus on representative documentary films, filmmakers, and organizations that address particular gender-specific issues affecting Pakistani women from their standpoint. Numerous Pakistani activist organizations and independent filmmakers have drawn attention to the widespread forms of violence and discrimination, with a particular focus on honour and revenge through extreme acts of violence such as stove-burning, acid-attacks, karo kari, honour-killing, honour-rape, and Swara. The chapter focuses on Burnt Victims: Scars on the Society. Burnt Victims: Scars on the Society, made by the AGHS Legal Aid Cell as a consciousness-raising and educational film for the purpose of training its staff to deal with cases of violence against women, also stresses the alarming situation of violence against women in the form of stove-burning and acid-attacks. Film discussions in the chapter demonstrates that Western conceptualizations and terminology of feminist' are not wholly applicable to the Pakistani situation.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionAccepted Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationImran, R. (2016) 'Victims of a vicious system: Women, violence, and human rights', in Imran, R. (2016) Activist Documentary Film in Pakistan: The Emergence of a Cinema of Accountability. London: Routledge, pp. 129-185.en
dc.identifier.endpage185en
dc.identifier.isbn9781315715230en
dc.identifier.startpage129en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15161
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofImran, R. (2016) Activist Documentary Film in Pakistan: The Emergence of a Cinema of Accountability.en
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315715230en
dc.rights© 2016, Rahat Imran. Published by Routledge. All rights reserved. This is an Accepted Version of a book chapter published by Routledge in Imran, R. (2016) Activist Documentary Film in Pakistan: The Emergence of a Cinema of Accountability, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315715230en
dc.subjectCinema of Accountabilityen
dc.subjectDocumentary filmsen
dc.subjectPakistanen
dc.subjectWomenen
dc.subjectViolence and discriminationen
dc.subjectHonour and revengeen
dc.subjectStove-burningen
dc.subjectAcid-attacksen
dc.subjectKaro karien
dc.subjectHonour-killingen
dc.subjectHonour-rapeen
dc.subjectSwaraen
dc.subject2016Burnt Victims: Scars on the Societyen
dc.titleVictims of a vicious system: Women, violence, and human rightsen
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