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



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Autore: Abu-Lughod Lila Visualizza persona
Titolo: Do Muslim women need saving? / / Lila Abu-Lughod Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : Harvard University Press, , 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
Disciplina: 305.48697
Soggetto topico: Muslim women - Civil rights
Muslim women - Social conditions
Women's rights - Islamic countries
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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. 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Do muslim women need saving  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-72750-9
0-674-72633-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790604203321
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