Abu-Lughod, Lila creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. mau 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (324 pages) 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. 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. Lila Abu-Lughod. Text in English. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index. a------ f------ Muslim women Social conditions Muslim women Civil rights Women's rights Islamic countries SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies RELIGION Islam General Social Sciences Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology Sociology Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie HQ1170 .A346 2013eb 305.48/697 De Gruyter De Gruyter De Gruyter Abu-Lughod, Lila. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2013] (DLC) 2013005846 (OCoLC)828265187 9780674726338 0674726332 22573/ctt65v1t8 JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575616 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=575616 N$T 131104 20200709055816.0 ocn862077007 eng