TY - BOOK ID - 555955 TI - Do Muslim women need saving? PY - 2013 SN - 9780674725164 0674725166 PB - Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press DB - UniCat KW - Islam KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Human rights KW - Muslim women KW - Women's rights KW - Social conditions KW - Civil rights KW - AUTHORITARIANISM -- 362.17 KW - #SBIB:39A11 KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - #SBIB:316.331H360 KW - Islamic women KW - Women, Muslim KW - Women KW - Social conditions. KW - Civil rights. KW - Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Godsdienst en menselijk leven: algemeen KW - Sociologie van het gezin. Sociologie van de seksualiteit KW - Fundamentele rechten en vrijheden KW - Musulmanes KW - Femmes KW - Conditions sociales KW - Droits KW - Muslim women - Social conditions KW - Muslim women - Civil rights KW - Women's rights - Islamic countries KW - Muslimahs KW - Feminism KW - Points of view KW - Theory KW - Images of women KW - Book KW - Femicide KW - Discrimination KW - Domestic violence KW - Personal documents UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:555955 AB - 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. ER -