Download PDF Full Article Content List Lila Abu-Lughod. Ethnicities 2014 15: 5, 759-777 Share. Share. Via Social Media Request Permissions. View permissions information for this article View; Explore More. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Show all authors. Lila Abu-Lughod. Lila Abu-Lughod. See all articles by this author.... Abu-Lughod gathers examples of the Western narrative of the "abused" Muslim women who need to be saved, and explains how the international focus on "saving" these women perpetuates racist ideas of Muslim societies as barbaric.
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Created Date... Wendy S. Hesford, "Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 40, no. 4 (Summer 2015): 985-987.
BOOK REVIEW Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu-Lughod Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013 324 pages. ISBN 978-0-674-72516-4 Reviewed by JOAN W. SCOTT... Saving Muslim women is now a global undertaking in which the participants are both Muslim and non-Muslim. Lila Abu-Lughod’s book is a critical reflection on this mushrooming industry, and its representatives, representations and bureaucracy.
This book is an account of the circumstances that led to a Muslim religious movement on the Guinea coast and its legacies in today's Republic of Guinea.