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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Paperback)
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (Paperback)
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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. In
recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular
image of women victimized by Islam with the complex women she has
known through her research in various communities in the Muslim
world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed
vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that
the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of
religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism-conditions not unique
to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections
that implicate the West-are often more decisive. The standard
Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt
to describe these women's lives. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is an
indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign
interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing
women from Islam-as well as a moving portrait of women's actual
experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
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