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Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu- Lughod HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, En gland 2013 Copyright © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Abu- Lughod, Lila. Do Muslim women need saving? / Lila Abu- Lughod. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0-6 74-7 2516- 4 (alk. paper) 1. Muslim women— Social conditions. 2. Muslim women— Civil rights. 3. Women’s rights— Islamic countries. I. Title. HQ1170.A346 2013 305.48'697—dc23 2013005846 For my mother, who watched me struggle CONTENTS Introduction: Rights and Lives 1 1. Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving? 27 2. The New Common Sense 54 3. Authorizing Moral Crusades 81 4. Seductions of the “Honor Crime” 113 5. The Social Life of Muslim Women’s Rights 143 6. An Anthropologist in the Territory of Rights 173 Conclusion: Registers of Humanity 201 Notes 229 Bibliography 279 Ac know ledg ments 305 Index 309 Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
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