A woman like her, the short life of Qandeel Baloch, Sanam Maher
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Label
A woman like her, the short life of Qandeel Baloch, Sanam Maher
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
resource.biographical
individual biography
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A woman like her
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Sanam Maher
Sub title
the short life of Qandeel Baloch
Summary
A beautiful woman in winged eyeliner and a lowcut top lies on a bed urging her favourite cricketer to win the next match. In another post, she pouts at the camera from a hot tub. She posts a selfie with a cleric, wearing his cap at a jaunty angle. Her posts are viewed millions of times and the comments beneath them are full of hate. As her notoriety grows, the comments made about her on national talk shows are just as vitriolic. They call her Pakistan's Kim Kardashian, they say she'll do anything for attention. When she's murdered, they're transfixed by the footage of her body. Drawing on interviews and indepth research, Sanam Maher pieces together Qandeel's life from the village where she grew up in the backwaters of rural Pakistan, to her stint in a women's shelter after escaping her marriage, to her incarnation as a social media sensation and the Muslim world's most unlikely feminist icon
Target audience
adult
Creator
Genre
Subject
- Biographies
- Online social networks -- Pakistan
- Baloch, Qandeel
- Women in mass media -- Biography
- Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
- Azeem, Fouzia
- Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
- Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
- Baloch, Qandeel -- Death and burial
- Honor killings -- Pakistan
- Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Content
Author
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject12
- Biographies
- Online social networks -- Pakistan
- Baloch, Qandeel
- Women in mass media -- Biography
- Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
- Azeem, Fouzia
- Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
- Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
- Baloch, Qandeel -- Death and burial
- Honor killings -- Pakistan
- Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography
- Content1
- Author1