Book description
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…
Why read it?
1 author picked Do Muslim Women Need Saving? as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The title of the book alone is enough to pick it up.
Abu-Lughod’s book is the crux for so many other works focused on the misplaced victimization of Arab and Muslim women. Not only does she challenge the West’s flawed understandings of these women, but she also implicates the dangers of the West’s foreign intervention. But it’s not all academic jargon.
She includes real and moving stories from women’s experiences that helped me reflect on my own ideological stance as a feminist.
From Sara's list on The best books proving Arab women can speak for themselves.
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