Do Muslim women need saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2013Description: 324 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780674725164 (alk. paper)
  • 0674725166 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 1170 .A346 2013
Contents:
Introduction : rights and lives -- Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "honor crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights -- Conclusion : registers of humanity.
Summary: "Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights." -- Publisher website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : rights and lives -- Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "honor crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights -- Conclusion : registers of humanity.

"Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab women for thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights." -- Publisher website.

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