Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

She gives examples of individuals that she knows personally, a hard-working peasant woman named Zaynab and her higher-middle class aunt. The book begins by explaining the culture of Islamic women in many places, particularly Egypt, because she did most of her graduate studies there. And this is a point that Abu-Lughod makes throughout her book – maybe we (Westerners, feminists, conservatives) just do not get it. But that applies to women all over America right?” He was joking, but he was also making the statement that he does not think that Muslim women need saving, he believes that they have a role in the family, just as he has a role in the family. When my wife makes money, it is my wife’s money. He also told me, “in our culture, as in yours, when I make money, it is my money and my wife’s money. He did not realize I was talking about during the service, because he does not believe that this would be a problem, because of his culture. His answer to me was that when a woman and a man are alone, they are tempted by each other. When I visited the Islamic Society of Greater Harrisburg, one of the questions I had was, why do you keep women separate from men? I meant during the jummah service, but this did not even occur to Mohammad Fayaz (the vice-president of the mosque). The book Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod addresses the question stated in the title, a question that many Western women would answer with a resounding yes. Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod