Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Lila Abu-Lughod

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
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Autor: Lila Abu-Lughod

 Wydawnictwo: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674725164
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Oprawa: twarda
Stron: 280
Data wydania: 2013-11-01
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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. Every page contains a fresh riposte to easy cultural or religious explanations for women s oppression Do Muslim Women Need Saving?" is the result of many years rumination over contemporary feminist debates in the developing world In this volatile debate Lila Abu-Lughod frequently reminds her readers that she writes as an anthropologist. In keeping with this role, she offers no simple remedy for female suffering abroad; nor does she condone the shrug that dismisses distant injustices as just their culture. Instead, she offers an injunction to look and listen carefully for suffering at home as well as overseas, and to examine our own responsibilities for the situations in which others in distant places find themselves. --Nabeelah Jaffer"Times Literary Supplement" (04/25/2014)".

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Lila Abu-Lughod