· Lila Abu-Lughod is a professor at Columbia University and the author of the new book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?. The views expressed are . · 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 . “Some of the most rewarding material in Do Muslim Women Need Saving? examines the obsession with constraint that counterposes perceptions of Muslim women to Enlightenment ideals of freedom and autonomy, connected to theoretical work by Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood While she is hardly alone in critiquing the flattened stereotype of the abject Muslim woman, Abu-Lughod Cited by:
Lila Abu-Lughod. (born 21 October ) Lila Abu-Lughod is an American with Palestinian and Jewish ancestry who is professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She is a specialist of the Arab world, her seven books, most based on long term ethnographic research, cover topics from sentiment. 7 Shares. Frequent reports of 'honour' 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. With this book Lila Abu-Lughod aims to challenge this conclusion. Naaz Rashid concludes that this a richly evidenced and. Unlike Professor Leonard, Abu-Lughod's answer is no they do not need saving as what the West presents as a Muslim women doesn't exist. She demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, the Muslim women has agency, the Muslim women doesn't need to be saved from her culture by the "civilized" culture of the West.
pittadmin. Author and Scholar Lil Abu-Lughod presents her findings 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. (born 21 October ) Lila Abu-Lughod is an American with Palestinian and Jewish ancestry who is professor of Anthropology and Women's and Gender Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She is a specialist of the Arab world, her seven books, most based on long term ethnographic research, cover topics from sentiment. Lila Abu-Lughod is a professor at Columbia University and the author of the new book, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?. The views expressed are solely her own. The views expressed are solely her own.
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