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Writing Women's Worlds

Bedouin Stories

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.

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Univ of California Press

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0520934970

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9780520934979

Dramas of Nationhood

The Politics of Television in Egypt

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Dramas of Nationhood

The Politics of Television in Egypt

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

Television is the cultural form that binds together the nation of Egypt. This text analyses Egyptian TV, not only to provide an understanding of the effect of the medium on Egyptian people, but also to examine TVs greater role in culture.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226001962

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9780226001968

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? 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. It offers a detailed, moving portrait of the actual experiences of ordinary Muslim women, and of the contingencies with which they live.

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Harvard University Press

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0674726332

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9780674726338

Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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. 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 generalizations about Islamic culture can explain the hardships these women face and asking what motivates particular individuals and institutions to promote their rights. In recent years Abu-Lughod has struggled to reconcile the popular image of women victimized 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. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? 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.

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Harvard University Press

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0674727509

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9780674727502

Writing Women's Worlds

Bedouin Stories

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Writing Women's Worlds

Bedouin Stories

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

Extrait de la couverture : " In 1978 Lila Abu-Lughod climbed out of a dusty van to meet members of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community. Living in this Egyptian Bedouin settlement for extended periods during the following decade, Abu-Lughod took part in family life, with its moments of humor, affection, and anger. As the new teller of these tales Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography. She explores how the telling of these stories challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women. Writing Women's Worlds is thus at once a vivid set of stories and a study in the politics of representation.

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Univ of California Press

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0520256514

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9780520256514

Dramas of Nationhood

The Politics of Television in Egypt

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Dramas of Nationhood

The Politics of Television in Egypt

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle Eastern nation. Representing a decade's worth of research, Dramas of Nationhood makes a case for the importance of studying television to answer larger questions about culture, power, and modern self-fashionings. Abu-Lughod explores the elements of developmentalist ideology and the visions of national progress that once dominated Egyptian television—now experiencing a crisis. She discusses the broadcasts in rich detail, from the generic emotional qualities of TV serials and the depictions of authentic national culture, to the debates inflamed by their deliberate strategies for combating religious extremism.

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338

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University of Chicago Press

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0226001989

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9780226001982

Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

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Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

By: Lila Abu-Lughod

After the events of 9/11, media representations of Muslims in the West—never known for their accuracy—became even more stereotypically negative. Few of us realize, however, the profusion of similar sentiments that existed within Arab Muslim media outlets ten or even fifteen years earlier. Lila Abu-Lughod here examines these images of religious extremism in popular Arab media, focusing most closely on such depictions in Egyptian television shows of the 1990s. Concluding with an exploration of the influence of media on religion itself, Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media will add new fuel to current debates in media studies and world politics.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9053568247

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Writing Women's Worlds

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Writing Women's Worlds

Writing Women's Worlds

Dramas of Nationhood

Dramas of Nationhood

Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

Local Contexts of Islamism in Popular Media

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