in june 2002, mukhtar mai, a pakistani woman from the impoverished village of meerwala, was gang raped by a local clan known as the mastoi -- punishment for indiscretions allegedly committed by the woman's brother. while certainly not the first account of a female body being negotiated for honor in a family, this time the survivor had bravely chosen to fight back. in doing so, mai single-handedly changed the feminist movement in pakistan, one of the world's most adverse climates for women.