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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780674088269
- Book Title
- Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 8.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Author
- Lila Abu-Lughod
- Genre
- Religion, Political Science, Social Science
- Topic
- Islamic Studies, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Islam / General, Women’s Studies, Anthropology / General
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? – Paperback By Abu-Lughod, Lila – GOOD
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674088263
ISBN-13
9780674088269
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221964865
Product Key Features
Book Title
Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Islamic Studies, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Islam / General, Women’s Studies, Anthropology / General
Genre
Religion, Political Science, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Trade
Reviews
Sharply observed take on the Western impulse to save oppressed Muslim women and the wider political, legal and cultural issues at stake., [A] classic of feminist anthropology…Anyone who wants to understand the lives of women in Muslim countries will learn from Ms Abu-Lughod’s detailed and empathetic portraits of the women of southern Egypt.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
305.48/697
Synopsis
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 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. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? 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 moving portrait of women’s actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live., Do Muslim Women Need Saving? 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. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.
LC Classification Number
HQ1170.A346 2015
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