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"--
Subjects
Subjects
Baloch, Qandeel
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016 -- Death and burial
Biographies
Biography
Celebrities
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Crime
Death and burial
Feminism
Honor killings
Honor killings -- Pakistan
Internet personalities
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Models (Persons)
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
Murder
Online social networks
Online social networks -- Pakistan
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Public opinion
Social life and customs
Social media
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
Social sciences
True crime
Women
Women -- Biography
Women in mass media
Women in mass media -- Biography
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016
Baloch, Qandeel, -- 1990-2016 -- Death and burial
Biographies
Biography
Celebrities
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Crime
Death and burial
Feminism
Honor killings
Honor killings -- Pakistan
Internet personalities
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Models (Persons)
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
Murder
Online social networks
Online social networks -- Pakistan
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Public opinion
Social life and customs
Social media
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
Social sciences
True crime
Women
Women -- Biography
Women in mass media
Women in mass media -- Biography
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9781612198408
9781094133638
9781094133638
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Biographies
Biography
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Feminism
Honor killings -- Pakistan
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
Murder
Online social networks -- Pakistan
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
Social sciences
True crime
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Biographies
Biography
Celebrities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Crime
Feminism
Honor killings -- Pakistan
Internet personalities -- Pakistan -- Biography
Models (Persons) -- Pakistan -- Biography
Murder
Online social networks -- Pakistan
Pakistan -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
Social media -- Pakistan -- Public opinion
Social sciences
True crime
Women -- Biography
Women in mass media -- Biography
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A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
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A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star / Sanam Maher
A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star / Sanam Maher
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Biography
Celebrities
Crime
Death and burial
Feminism
Honor killings
Internet personalities
Models (Persons)
Murder
Online social networks
Public opinion
Social life and customs
Social media
Social sciences
True crime
Women
Women in mass media
Biography
Celebrities
Crime
Death and burial
Feminism
Honor killings
Internet personalities
Models (Persons)
Murder
Online social networks
Public opinion
Social life and customs
Social media
Social sciences
True crime
Women
Women in mass media
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