Do Muslim Women Need Saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod.
Abu-Lughod, Lila, author.
2013
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Title Do Muslim Women Need Saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod.
Author Abu-Lughod, Lila, author.
ISBN 9780674726338
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674726338
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (335 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674726338 doi
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Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Rights and Lives
1. Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving?
2. The New Common Sense
3. Authorizing Moral Crusades
4. Seductions of the "Honor Crime"
5. The Social Life of Muslim Women's Rights
6. An Anthropologist in the Territory of Rights
Conclusion: Registers of Humanity
NOTES
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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