Critical Investigation Planning Tutorial 10/11/14

1. Rewrite the title on CI proposal blog post - GREEN https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=9019508668691345344#editor/target=post;postID=329799825381715478;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=4;src=postname
2. In issues and debates ensure to develop by linking the media texts - AMBER
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3. Include Representations & Stereotypes : of women, disability/disfigurement - how they are shown. - GREEN
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4. Ownership & Control: Gender biased, institutions owned by males, could be why these issues aren't raised enough. - GREEN
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5. Globalization/'Global Village':  consider findings, western campaigning(e.g angelina jolie's article and camapaigns in MEDCs helping LEDCs such as Project SAAVE.) - GREEN
6. Include more on Feminism - AMBER
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7. Apply more theories relevant with the actual text, as well as wider context
8. Include comments after every quote or source
9. Add more text on the media text i.e. Saving Face itself. Read more film reviews!
10. Use wikipedia to get more references, and links to more beneficial sources. 

Notes & Quotes

1. Primary Text - Saving Face
- Pakistan acid victims try to block Saving Face film
’’Relations between filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and some of her documentary subjects have turned sour.''

''The survivors say they could be at risk of a backlash and even further acid attacks if the film is shown at home.

'' At the centre of the dispute is the question of whether the survivors featured in the 40-minute film gave permission for it to be screened in Pakistan.''


"This is disrespect to my family, to my relatives and they'll make an issue of it... ''

''We may be in more danger and we're scared that, God forbid, we could face the same type of incident again.''

"We do not want to show our faces to the world.''

"Most times, men who throw acid are members of one's own family, they don't get prosecuted,"

2. News

   1. 40 years since the Equal Pay Act, equality remains a dream
      http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/08/four-decades-on-equal-pay-yet-to-come

"Men still earn more than women in nearly 90% of job categories, according to analysis by The Guardian"
"Men earn 42.4% more in their annual salaries"
"The average man working full-time has a median salary, including overtime, of £28,091 in 2010, 19.9% more than his female counterpart"
"The gap falls to 10.2% when overtime - which typically pays a much higher rate and is largely carried out by men"
""It's appalling. How can this be when we have pay equality laws?" said Ruth Sealy, deputy director of the International Centre for Women Leaders at Cranfield University."
"Six in 10 women aged 15 to 30 say they have experienced sexist remarks or sexist behaviour, while 47% of women do not believe they are treated equally to men in the workplace, according to a survey by Ipsos Mori on behalf of Amnesty International, the Fawcett Society and Women's Aid"

  

 2.  The Rise of the Female-Led Action Film
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/the-rise-of-the-female-led-action-film/251678/

"Female characters have slowly but steadily evolved beyond the universal hostage, victims or conquest archetype and became the heroine of their own actions"

3. BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24402849
This video from BBC News shows the positives and negatives of being a female - around the world. and what they are facing based on their gender. It makes the audience question whether females have the same opportunities as males? it also shows, the limitations a female will have to face in their lives but also shows the opportunities they have now. This is similar to saving face in the sense that although Rukhsana an acid attack victim is shown inferior, for being put in life threatening danger by a MALE, who was her husband, she's  now able to speak against this, and take him to court - showing the changes in women's rights/society, and politics now. 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8609512.stm 

''There are no reliable national statistics, but campaigners estimate that there may be as many as 150 victims every year.''

''It is an intimate crime - often carried out in the family home, by husbands or in-laws.''

4. La Times

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/08/entertainment/la-et-saving-face-20120308

''With all the attention on celebrity and glamour at the Academy Awards, it's rare that the award for short documentary film gets much notice.''

''Obaid-Chinoy, who also will be receiving a civilian award from Pakistan's prime minister this month for the film.

''The acid phenomenon has been growing in her country for the past decade, especially in parts of the country with high levels of unemployment and low levels of literacy.''


5. Guardian 

• Acid attack survivors in India find safe space but little legal respite ...
  ''Laxmi has become a celebrity of sorts: she has received national and international prizes, including the International Women of Courage Award, presented by US first lady Michelle Obama. ''
• Acid attack survivors network in Bangladesh - in pictures | Global ...
  ''Forced into marriage at 12 years old, Neela was just 14 when her husband attacked her. Today, she keeps a photo of herself taken before the acid attack on her dressing table.''
  ''Neela’s husband is now in jail, the result of a year’s campaigning by local charities including ActionAid. ''
  ''But few perpetrators are punished: of the 2,742 reported acid attacks in the last 10 years in Bangladesh, fewer than 450 have resulted in a conviction''
• In praise of … Stop Acid Attacks | Editorial | Comment is free | The ...
  ''As many as 1,000 women are disfigured by acid attacks in India every year, yet there's no support system to help them rebuild their lives. Stop Acid Attacks, a four-month-old organisation, fills that gap: its three-room office (also home to three staff) in Delhi is a space for 30 survivors to meet and share their experiences, dreams and disappointments.''
• Acid attacks and rape: growing threat to women who oppose ...
  ''Afghan women who defy traditional gender roles and speak out against the oppression of women are routinely subject to threats, intimidation and assassination. An increasingly powerful Taliban regularly attacks projects, schools and businesses run by women.''
• Saving faces in Pakistan | Life and style | The Guardian
  Despite his years of training, Jawad admits that he was shocked, "I had not seen anything like it before. I had seen bigger burns and on a younger patient, but never facial burns of this nature.''
  ''The Acid Survivors Foundation to introduce a law to ensure a minimum prison sentence of 14 years for perpetrators of acid attacks.''
• Iranian woman blinded by acid attack pardons assailant as he faces ...
  ''Bahrami, who had refused to marry Movahedi, was disfigured and blinded by him when he threw a jar of acid in her face while she was returning home from work in 2004.''''Ameneh Bahrami, his victim, spared him at the last minute, Iran's semi-official Isna news agency reported.'

6. NBC News

• Acid Attacks to keep Afghan girls away from school

''Girls were banned from schools under the rule of the Taliban, the hard-line Islamist regime that ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Women were only allowed to leave the house wearing a body-hiding burqa and accompanied by a male family member.''

3. Media Magazine Links 

1. Gender Theory
http://media.edusites.co.uk/article/gender-theory/

"Judith Butler’s work on gender is set out in Gender Trouble (1990). In Butler’s terms the performance of gender, sex, and sexuality is about power in society."
"Sex is biological while gender is culturally constructed"
"Butler argues that gender is per-formative. She says that no identity exists behind the acts or performance that express gender, and these acts constitute the illusion of the stable gender identity".

2. Post feminism - MM40 - April 2014
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0i5diL3vrEiSGxRNHIyZmM4Ums&usp=sharing
''Post-feminism can be defined as the current ideological belief in culture and society that we are somehow past needing feminism – that the attitudes and arguments of feminism are no longer needed; that those battles have long been won.

4. Secondary Info - Project SAAVE

5. Other Academic 

• Stop Street Harassment
• Bangladesh case
• ''The perpetrator was a young man in his twenties, angry that Jannatul had refused his wedding proposals''
  
  ''The next day she was treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, having spent hours in the waiting room despite her third-degree burns.
  
  '' Approximately 300 people in Bangladesh share Jannatul's experience each year, and 41 percent of victims are under the age of 18''
  
  ·    Avon Global Center for Women and Justice at Cornell Law School
''Acid attacks, like other forms of violence against women, are not random or natural phenomena. Rather, they are social phenomena deeply embedded in a gender order that has historically privileged patriarchal control over women and justified the use of violence to “keep women in their places.”
''acid violence is a form of gender-based violence and discrimination prohibited under international law, including the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” i.e., the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. ''

''To combat acid violence, governments should limit the availability of acid, appropriately punish perpetrators, provide adequate redress to victims, and support women’s empowerment to enhance their self-confidence and ability to sustain independent livelihoods. ''








1
 The terms “acid violence” and “acid attacks” are used interchangeably in this Report. “Acid attacks” refer to 
specific incidents usually involving throwing acid at one or more individuals who are the intended victims of the 
attacks. “Acid violence” is a broader term that includes acts such as forcing a victim to ingest acid. Acid 
violence is also sometimes referred to as “vitriolage.”
2 See Acid Attack Keeps Afghan Girls Away from School: Men on motorcycles splattered 15 students, teachers 
with acid in Kandahar, MSNBC, Nov. 14, 2008, available at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27713077/ (last 
visited Jan. 2, 2011). 3
 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, adopted Dec. 18, 1979, G.A. 
Res. 34/180, U.N. GAOR, 34th Sess., Supp. No. 46 at 193, U.N. Doc. A/34/46 (1979) [hereinafter CEDAW]. 
CEDAW was ratified by Bangladesh on Nov. 6, 1984, by India on July 9, 1993, and by Cambodia on Oct. 15, 
1992. See United Nations Treaty Collection Databases, 
http://treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=TREATY&mtdsg_no=IV-8&chapter=4&lang=en#1 (last 
visited Jan. 2, 2011).
4 Id. at art. 1; Comm. on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee), General 
Recommendation No. 19 – Violence Against Women, ¶ 7, 11th Sess., U.N. Doc. A/47/38 (Jan. 29, 1992) 
[hereinafter CEDAW Committee General Recommendation No. 19 – Violence Against Women].

6. Youtube