Dochters van de Nijl = Daughters of the Nile / directed by Hillie Molenaar and Joop van Wijk.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Wijk, Joop van, director, producer.

Molenaar, Hillie, director, producer.

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Filmakers library online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Egypt--Social conditions--20th century.

Women.

Muslim women--Egypt--Social conditions.

Muslim women.

Egypt--Social conditions.

Egypt.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (48 minutes)

Other Title:

Daughters of the Nile

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Filmakers Library, 1992.

Language Note:

In Arabic with English subtitles.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

This beautifully photographed, revealing film about Egypt's women captures their separate and subordinate life under the Islamic code. Men and women speak about their traditions, expectations, and patterns of life. We meet articulate women who have had little schooling and whose lives are centered on childbearing and hard physical work. They acknowledge that their choices in life are limited. The Koran dictates behavior at every stage of life. Their husbands are selected by their fathers. Often, at puberty they are taken out of school. They unquestioningly accept circumcision, arranged marriages, huge families and polygamous husbands. Women after marriage are secluded and some may never set eyes on another man. By participating in this film, the women question for the first time some of the assumptions of their lives.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 10, 2015).

OCLC:

911954545

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.