The Resource Do Muslim women need saving?, Lila Abu-Lughod
Do Muslim women need saving?, Lila Abu-Lughod
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- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Contents
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- Do Muslim women (still) need saving?
- The new common sense of going to war for women
- Authorizing moral crusades
- Seductions of the "honor crime"
- The social life of Muslim women's rights
- An anthropologist in the territory of rights, Islamic and otherwise
- Isbn
- 9780674725164
- Label
- Do Muslim women need saving?
- Title
- Do Muslim women need saving?
- Statement of responsibility
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Subject
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- Gleichberechtigung
- Jämställdhet
- Fördomar -- värderingar -- Västerlandet
- Rechtsstellung
- Islam -- heder | förtryck
- Vrouwen
- Muslim women -- Civil rights
- Muslim women -- Social conditions
- Soziale Situation
- Levnadsförhållanden -- social ställning -- Islamiska länder
- Muslimska kvinnor -- sociala aspekter
- Kvinnors rättigheter
- Islamische Staaten
- Muslimin
- Women's rights -- Islamic countries
- Islamiska länder
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Abu-Lughod, Lila
- Dewey number
- 305.48/697
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ1170
- LC item number
- .A346 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Muslim women
- Muslim women
- Women's rights
- Muslimska kvinnor
- Kvinnors rättigheter
- Levnadsförhållanden
- Islam
- Fördomar
- Jämställdhet
- Islamiska länder
- Vrouwen
- Muslimin
- Gleichberechtigung
- Soziale Situation
- Rechtsstellung
- Islamische Staaten
- Label
- Do Muslim women need saving?, Lila Abu-Lughod
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense of going to war for women -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "honor crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights, Islamic and otherwise
- Control code
- ocn828265187
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674725164
- Lccn
- 2013005846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674725164
- (OCoLC)828265187
- Label
- Do Muslim women need saving?, Lila Abu-Lughod
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense of going to war for women -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "honor crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights, Islamic and otherwise
- Control code
- ocn828265187
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 324 pages
- Isbn
- 9780674725164
- Lccn
- 2013005846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674725164
- (OCoLC)828265187
Subject
- Fördomar -- värderingar -- Västerlandet
- Gleichberechtigung
- Islam -- heder | förtryck
- Islamische Staaten
- Islamiska länder
- Jämställdhet
- Kvinnors rättigheter
- Levnadsförhållanden -- social ställning -- Islamiska länder
- Muslim women -- Civil rights
- Muslim women -- Social conditions
- Muslimin
- Muslimska kvinnor -- sociala aspekter
- Rechtsstellung
- Soziale Situation
- Vrouwen
- Women's rights -- Islamic countries
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