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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (335 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674725164
  • 9780674726338
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  • HQ
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674726338

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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