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A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
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"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"--
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- 11 of 11 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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0 current holds with 11 total copies.| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | 920 MAHER (Text) Nonfiction |
31036150924949 |
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| Chappaqua Library | 302.23 MAHER (Text) Nonfiction |
31005600050019 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | B BALOCH (Text) Biography |
31014152855452 |
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| Mount Vernon Public Library | B BALOCH (Text) Biography |
31018155408003 |
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| New Rochelle Public Library | B BALOCH (Text) Biography |
31019156491709 |
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| North Castle Public Library | 302.23 M (Text) Nonfiction |
31001151954931 |
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| Ossining Public Library | B BALOCH (Text) Biography |
31021153382683 |
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| Town of Pelham Public Library | 302.23 M (Text) Nonfiction |
31023151268690 |
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| White Plains Public Library | 920 M (Text) Nonfiction |
31544209960350 |
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| Yonkers Grinton I. Will Library | 302.2309 M (Text) Nonfiction |
31035613048098 |
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