Shackled women : abuses of a patriarchal world / Journeyman Pictures (Firm).

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With dowries reaching fifty percent of a family's income, a second daughter is often called "the girl born for the burial pit. This program assesses second- and third-world abuses of women's rights by the male establishment-and examines how female collaboration sometimes contributes to their perpetu...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Films on Demand.
Corporate Authors:	Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm) Infobase Journeyman Pictures (Great Britain)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2005], ©1999.
Series:	Films on Demand.
Subjects:	Kinship. Marriage. Mothers. Sex role. Women > Sexual behavior. Educational films. Internet videos.
Genre:	Educational films. Internet videos.
Online Access:	Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:	1 online resource (41 min.) : sound, color, digital file.
Variant Title:	Abuses of a patriarchal world
Format:	Electronic Video

Contents:

Property of Men (2:11)
Unwanted Children (2:11)
Female Deprivation (2:12)
Female Infanticide (3:56)
Prostitution (3:04)
Dowries (4:44)
Islamic Law (2:03)
Taliban (1:34)
Speaking Out (2:06)
Black Shroud (2:51)
Hijab (3:37)
Female Circumcision (5:00)
Fighting Infanticide (3:34)
Improving the Future (0:52)