LEADER 03904nam 22007091 450 001 9910790604203321 005 20230126203635.0 010 $a0-674-72750-9 010 $a0-674-72633-2 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674726338 035 $a(CKB)2550000001140817 035 $a(EBL)3301358 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000941119 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12394805 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000941119 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10963479 035 $a(PQKB)11598013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301358 035 $a(DE-B1597)209631 035 $a(OCoLC)1004871653 035 $a(OCoLC)1013936925 035 $a(OCoLC)1029812132 035 $a(OCoLC)1032679063 035 $a(OCoLC)1037982896 035 $a(OCoLC)1041980504 035 $a(OCoLC)1046609269 035 $a(OCoLC)1047001758 035 $a(OCoLC)862077007 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674726338 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301358 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10791248 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001140817 100 $a20131107d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurunu---uuuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDo Muslim women need saving? /$fLila Abu-Lughod 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-72516-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index. 327 $aDo 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. 330 $aFrequent 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. The author 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 the author 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. This work 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 portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live. 606 $aMuslim women$xCivil rights 606 $aMuslim women$xSocial conditions 606 $aWomen's rights$zIslamic countries 615 0$aMuslim women$xCivil rights. 615 0$aMuslim women$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aWomen's rights 676 $a305.48697 700 $aAbu-Lughod$b Lila$0543898 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790604203321 996 $aDo muslim women need saving$91336165 997 $aUNINA 999 $p$9.48$u05/13/2019$5Dis