Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780674725164
Copyright date: 2013
First sentence: On a bright December day in 2010, I was having tea with Zaynab, a woman who lives in a village in southern Egypt.
Description: "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." -- Publisher website.
Table of contents: label: Introduction: Rights and Lives
pagenum: 1; label: 1.
title: Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving?
pagenum: 27; label: 2.
title: The New Common Sense
pagenum: 54; label: 3.
title: Authorizing Moral Crusades
pagenum: 81; label: 4.
title: Seductions of the "Honor Crime"
pagenum: 113; label: 5.
title: The Social Life of Muslime Women's Rights
pagenum: 143; label: 6.
title: An Anthropologist in the Territory of Rights
pagenum: 143; label: Conclusion
title: Registers of Humanity
pagenum: 201; label: Notes
pagenum: 229; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 279; label: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 305; label: Index
pagenum: 309