Deconstructing the dominant discourse about Muslim women A Reading of Lila Abu Lughod’s work
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الأنثروبولوجيا, الشرق الأوسط, الإسلام, الحداثة, النسوية Anthropology, Middle East, Islam, Modernity, Feminism
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This paper aims to discover how the anthropologist Lila Abulughod invested anthropological and critical tools to deconstruct the hegemonic discourse about women in the middle east, understand it’s prejudices, and it's intertwined with orientalism, modernism, modernization, liberalisation and saving discourses. Starting from the realization of central zones of theorization within Arab world anthropology and the application of methodological investigation to reveal the replacement of the realistic examination by ideological demagogy. Therefore, the question about the real world of Muslim women would be possible apart from imposing guardianship in the name of modernization or saving.
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