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100	1		_aAbu-Lughod, Lila, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDo Muslim women need saving? / _cLila Abu-Lughod.
250			_aFirst Harvard University Press paperback edition.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2015.
300			_a324 pages ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Rights and lives -- 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.
520			_aFrequent 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 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 the author 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. This work 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 portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.
650		0	_aMuslim women _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aMuslim women _xCivil rights.
650		0	_aWomen's rights _zIslamic countries.
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