Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Name: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
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ISBN: 9780674725164

ISBN-10: 0674725166

ISBN-13: 9780674725164

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lila Abu-Lughod

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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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Ahmad H. Sa'di is a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published widely on political, social, and economic aspects of the lives of Palestinians in Israel.Lila Abu-Lughod is professor of anthropology and gender studies at Columbia University. Her books include Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society, Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories, and Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt.