Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-lughod
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-lughod Frequent reports of honor killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human…
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-lughod
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. 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. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly challenges this conclusion.
Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women,
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