Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

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 ca...

By Lila Abu-Lughod
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press; 10/13/13 edition (November 12, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780674725164
ISBN-13: 978-0674725164
ASIN: 0674725166
Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 1 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 1033006
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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A vital, accessibly-written academic work about feminism, Islam, and how Muslim women are cast as objects needing saving--rather than humans with agency. This is an incredibly teachable work; I have used it in a variety of courses at the undergraduat

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