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

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. The author challenges this conclusion. An anthropologist who has been writing about Arab wo...

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Main Author: Abu-Lughod, Lila (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2013.
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