Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others Author(s): Lila Abu-Lughod Reviewed work(s): Source: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), pp. 783-790 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567256 . Accessed: 18/01/2012 15:55
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H
,
Muslim
Women
LILA ABU-LUGHOD
EthicsForum: September 11 and Ethnographic Responsibility
Really Reflections Anthropological
Relativism and
Its
Do
Need on Saving
Cultural
?
Others
the "War Terrorism," whether on This the ABSTRACT article devoted asking explores ethicsof the current anthropology, discipline withcultural can us on and made to understanding dealing difference, provide withcritical purchase thejustifications forAmerican inAfghanistan terms liberating, saving, in of or women.Ilookfirst the dangers reifying at of in intervention culture, Afghan apparent icons the woman messy over historical political and to neat thetendencies plaster cultural like Muslim attention Then, dynamics. calling with discourses equality, on and colonial missionary and of rhetoric Muslim on to the resonances contemporary freedom, rights earlier a serious of differences Iarguethatwe needto develop,
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