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  title info:
    title: Gift of a girl
  name:
    name part: Al-Malazi, Mayyasa.
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (27 min.).
  abstract: This powerful and moving film explores the complexity of female infanticide in southern India and shows steps that are being taken to eradicate the practice. Every year in India thousands of baby girls are killed. Partly this is because of the dowry system which makes a daughter a liability to a family. In a country where being a woman means living a life of hardship, the murder of female infants may be seen by the mothers as being a humane solution. There is even the widespread belief that if a baby girl is killed, then the next baby will be a boy. URISE, a non-governmental agency, is working in the villages to promote the idea among women that female children are equal in the eyes of the law and can be an asset in the family. They have set up associations called sanghams to support pregnant women and mothers in their decision to keep their daughters. When a girl baby is born, the sanghamscelebrates her arrival with gifts, showing the mother that a girl is something to be valued. This sensitive film does not dwell on the horrors of the practice. Rather, it allows the women to speak for themselves and shows how they can be empowered.
  target audience: For College; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: produced by Mayyasa Al-Malazi.
  note: Originally released as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: This edition in English.
  subject:
    topic: Female infanticide
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Women's issues
  classification: HV6539.I5 G548 1998
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)747796052
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: VaAlASP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324205747.4
    record identifier: in00003745384