Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective
The purpose of doing this study is to record and collect the views and thoughts of people about how women are portrayed by our media and to what degree this portrayal matches with real life situations females face and the treatments they get in their real lives. Several issues have been raised in past decades regarding denial of womens existence, brutality on women, resistance against the higher education for women, status of women in Islam, women rights and more. Few issues like higher education for women, forceful marriages, and injustice with women were considered for this study and respondents were asked about these issues and the acceptance or rejection of these issues by using Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan as a tool for content analysis. Respondents were asked about the situations in the drama and the real-life situations and incidents they face; close to the story line of this drama. The result of the study was somehow positive; it was found that the intellectual level of people is comparatively better than those from the last two decades. People have started being positively inclined towards giving basic rights to females and they appreciate higher education for women in a pretty higher ratio now.
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Portrayal, Self-Esteem, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Holy Quran, Patriarchy, Education
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(1) Sadaf Zahra
Ph.D. Scholar, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar
Ph.D. Scholar, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Zahra, S., & Babar, Z. (2018). Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective. Global Mass Communication Review, III(I), 48-72. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2018(III-I).05
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CHICAGO : Zahra, Sadaf, and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar. 2018. "Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective." Global Mass Communication Review, III (I): 48-72 doi: 10.31703/gmcr.2018(III-I).05
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HARVARD : ZAHRA, S. & BABAR, Z. 2018. Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective. Global Mass Communication Review, III, 48-72.
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MHRA : Zahra, Sadaf, and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar. 2018. "Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective." Global Mass Communication Review, III: 48-72
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MLA : Zahra, Sadaf, and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar. "Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective." Global Mass Communication Review, III.I (2018): 48-72 Print.
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OXFORD : Zahra, Sadaf and Babar, Zaheer-Ud-Din (2018), "Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective", Global Mass Communication Review, III (I), 48-72
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TURABIAN : Zahra, Sadaf, and Zaheer-Ud-Din Babar. "Exploration of Public Perception About Drama Serial Meri Zaat Zarra-E-Benishan A Feminist Perspective." Global Mass Communication Review III, no. I (2018): 48-72. https://doi.org/10.31703/gmcr.2018(III-I).05