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Maher, Sanam.
Subjects
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016.
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016 -- Death and burial.
Azeem, Fouzia.
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women in mass media -- Biography.
Online social networks -- Pakistan.
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion.
Honor killings -- Pakistan.
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Maher, Sanam.
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016.
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016 -- Death and burial.
Azeem, Fouzia.
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Women in mass media -- Biography.
Online social networks -- Pakistan.
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography.
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion.
Honor killings -- Pakistan.
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a
social
media star / Sanam Maher.
by
Maher, Sanam.
Melville House, 2020.
Call #:
792.028092 M214w
Subjects
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016.
Baloch, Qandeel, 1990-2016
--
Death and burial.
Azeem, Fouzia.
Celebrities
--
Pakistan
--
Biography.
Women in mass media
--
Biography.
Online
social
networks
--
Pakistan
.
Internet personalities
--
Pakistan
--
Biography.
Models (Persons)
--
Pakistan
--
Biography.
Social
media
--
Pakistan
--
Public opinion.
Honor killings
--
Pakistan
.
Pakistan
--
Social
life and customs
--
21st century.
ISBN:
9781612198408 (hc.)
Uniform title:
Sensational life & death of Qandeel Baloch
Description:
xix, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"First published in 2018 in India as The sensational life and death of Qandeel Baloch by Aleph Book Company."--T. p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The Baloch family
--
"People say this is no job for a woman"
--
The models of Islamabad
--
"How I'm looking?"
--
The blue-eyed Chaiwala
--
"Guys, who want to watch my next nasty clip?"
--
The helpline
--
"I'm going to do something that gets everyone worried"
--
The Mufti
--
"I'm telling you that my life is in danger"
--
The media and the murder.
Summary:
"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"--From the publisher.
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