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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Lila Abu-Lughod

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ISBN 9780674088269

Publication Date: 09/07/2015

336 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

World

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Lila Abu-Lughod is Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and women’s studies.

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At the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage, read an analysis of Lila Abu-Lughod’s central premise as it relates to women’s rights in Jordan
At the Muslimah Media Watch blog, read the story of one Muslim woman’s intellectual and emotional appreciation for Abu-Lughod’s efforts to “save Muslim women from being saved”
At the New York Times blog ArtsBeat, watch a brief video in which Abu-Lughod discusses the gap between popular Western beliefs about the constructed group “Muslim women” and the variegated population that exists in reality
Read Abu-Lughod’s essay in The National about the activist group Femen, who protest for women’s rights while topless, and an online counter-protest by more conservative women who argue that Femen does not speak for them
Read a Time Magazine essay by Abu-Lughod on the Western crusade to rescue Muslim women
Read an excerpt from Do Muslim Women Need Saving? at the Daily Beast
At JSTOR, read Abu-Lughod’s 2002 American Anthropologist article, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others” (subscription or site license required)
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