Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

by Lila Abu-Lughod

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725166
• ISBN13: 9780674725164
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.4"