Do Muslim Women Need Saving? / / Lila Abu-Lughod.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
• VerfasserIn: Abu-Lughod, Lila,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Rights and Lives --; 1. Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving? --; 2. The New Common Sense --; 3. Authorizing Moral Crusades --; 4. Seductions of the "Honor Crime" --; 5. The Social Life of Muslim Women's Rights --; 6. An Anthropologist in the Territory of Rights --; Conclusion: Registers of Humanity --; NOTES --; Bibliography --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674726338; 9783110638721; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674726338
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lila Abu-Lughod.

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.