Do Muslim Women Need Saving? /

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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. The author challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab wo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Abu-Lughod, Lila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Muslim women > Civil rights.
Women's rights > Islamic countries.
Musulmanes > Conditions sociales.
Musulmanes > Droits.
Femmes > Droits > Pays musulmans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
RELIGION > Islam > General.
Women's rights.
Frauenbewegung
Islam
Islamic countries.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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