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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2013.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
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.