Do Muslim Women Need Saving? - Brossura

Abu-Lughod, Lila

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ISBN 10: 0674088263 ISBN 13: 9780674088269

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"Lila Abu Lughod's book is a critical reflection on this mushrooming industry [of saving Muslim women], and its representatives, representations and bureaucracy... Abu Lughod's aim is to disentangle our concern with saving Muslim women from the multiple realties of women's lives." --Madawi Al-Rasheed, Times Higher Education, 7/11/13

[A] beautiful book. It is a riveting account by an academic who has spent many years observing women in the Middles East [...] Abu Lughod is a great listener and a sharp observer of everyday life [...] and has an ear for stories that don't make headlines. --Elif Shafak, Literary Review, 1 December 2013

Abu-Lughod reverses the usual direction of inquiry by focusing on those who advocate Muslim women's rights, rather than the women they seek to help. The book answers its title by pointing to the problem with the way the question is posed. --Times Literary Supplement, 24 April 2014

Product Description:

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. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0674088263
• ISBN 13: 9780674088269
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 324