Do Muslim women need saving?
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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press
2013.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623532906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Do Muslim women (still) need saving?
- The new common sense
- Authorizing moral crusades
- Seductions of the "Honor Crime"
- The social life of Muslim women's rights
- An anthropologist in the territory of rights
- Conclusion: Registers of humanity.
