{"title":"Lila Abu-Lughod","description":"\u003cp\u003eLila Abu-Lughod's works offer insightful explorations into culture, gender, and power within Muslim societies. Her writing combines deep ethnographic research with critical analysis, challenging common stereotypes and encouraging nuanced understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful discussions that question assumptions about identity and representation, making her books essential for those interested in \u003cem\u003eeducation\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ereference\u003c\/em\u003e on contemporary social issues.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"do-muslim-women-need-saving-by-lila-abu-lughod-9780674088269","title":"Do Muslim Women Need Saving?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrequent reports of honour 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 thirty years, she delves into the predicaments of Muslim women today, questioning whether generalisations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimised by Islam with the complex women she has known through her research in various communities in the Muslim world. Here, she renders that divide vivid by presenting detailed vignettes of the lives of ordinary Muslim women, and showing that the problem of gender inequality cannot be laid at the feet of religion alone. Poverty and authoritarianism—conditions not unique to the Islamic world, and produced out of global interconnections that implicate the West—are often more decisive. The standard Western vocabulary of oppression, choice, and freedom is too blunt to describe these women's lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo Muslim Women Need Saving?\u003c\/em\u003e is an indictment of a mindset that has justified all manner of foreign interference, including military invasion, in the name of rescuing women from Islam—as well as a moving portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383774134508,"sku":"9780674088269","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27470363482427.jpg?v=1773379769"},{"product_id":"veiled-sentiments-by-lila-abu-lughod-9780520292499","title":"Veiled Sentiments","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1986, Lila Abu-Lughod’s \u003ci\u003eVeiled Sentiments\u003c\/i\u003e has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years, studying gender relations, morality, and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting, the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod’s analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins, who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning—for all involved—of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601175986412,"sku":"9780520292499","price":110.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/bc0de63b80733078a84648a6b5cb7a5d.jpg?v=1778018611"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/lila-abu-lughod.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}