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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Choice Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Abu-Lughod, Lila.     Subjects     Muslim women -- Social conditions.     Muslim women -- Civil rights.     Women's rights -- Islamic countries.     Women in Islam.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Abu-Lughod, Lila.       by title:      Do Muslim women need...       by call number:      305.48697 A165d     Search the Web     Abu-Lughod, Lila.     Muslim women -- Social conditions.     Muslim women -- Civil rights.     Women's rights -- Islamic countries.     Women in Islam.       MARC Display

Do Muslim women need saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod. by Abu-Lughod, Lila. Harvard University Press, 2013. Call #: 305.48697 A165d Subjects Muslim women -- Social conditions.   Muslim women -- Civil rights.   Women's rights -- Islamic countries.   Women in Islam. ISBN:  9780674088269 (pbk.) 9780674725164 (hc.) 0674725166 (hc.) Description:  324 pages ; 22 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  Do Muslim women (still) need saving? -- The new common sense of going to war for women -- Authorizing moral crusades -- Seductions of the "honor crime" -- The social life of Muslim women's rights -- An anthropologist in the territory of rights, Islamic and otherwise. Summary:  "Honor killings, disfigurement and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West that Muslim women need to be rescued. Lila Abu-Lughod boldly 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"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Cole Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.48697 A165d Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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