05043cam a2200781Ii 4500 ocn862077007 OCoLC 20200709055816.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 131104s2013 mau ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T YDXCP MEU OCLCO JSTOR E7B OCLCQ OCLCO EBLCP WAU DEBSZ OCLCO ELW JBG AGLDB CSAIL MOR PIFAG ZCU MERUC OCLCQ IOG DEGRU DEBBG 865853168 913859756 1004871653 9780674726338 (electronic bk.) 0674726332 (electronic bk.) 9780674725164 0674725166 10.4159/9780674726338 doi 575616 (N$T) (OCoLC)862077007 (OCoLC)865853168 (OCoLC)913859756 (OCoLC)1004871653 22573/ctt65v1t8 JSTOR a------ f------ HQ1170 .A346 2013eb SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh REL037000 bisacsh POL035010 bisacsh SOC028000 bisacsh SOC002000 bisacsh 305.48/697 23 MAIN Abu-Lughod, Lila, author. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (324 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Text in English. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index. Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "Honor Crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights -- Conclusion: Registers of humanity. Print version record. 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. The author 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 the author 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. This work 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 portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live. Master record variable field(s) change: 650 Muslim women Social conditions. Muslim women Civil rights. Women's rights Islamic countries. SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies. bisacsh RELIGION Islam General. bisacsh Social Sciences. Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology. Sociology. Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie. Electronic books. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 978-3-11-044220-5 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 978-3-11-045951-7 Title is part of the collection: De Gruyter Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility Print version: Abu-Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim women need saving? Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2013] 9780674725164 (DLC) 2013005846 (OCoLC)828265187 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575616 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL3301358 ebrary EBRY ebr10791248 EBSCOhost EBSC 575616 YBP Library Services YANK 10794025 De Gruyter DEGR 9780674726338 92 N$T 53064 53064