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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Abu-Lughod, Lila (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.