Lila Abu-Lughod (1 Jan 1952 Jahr – 1 Jan 2024 Jahr)

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About:
-American, PhD at Harvard (under Geertz) and teaches at Columbia
-fieldwork among Bedouin communities in Egypt
-leading figure in feminist anthropology and postcolonial studies
-focuses on the intersections of gender, culture, power, and representation, particularly in the Arab world

Major Works:
-Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society (1986)
→ explores how honor, gender, and social relations are expressed and negotiated through poetry in Bedouin society
→ challenged western notions of Arab womens' roles and showed poetry served as a space for resistance and the expression of personal feelings in a highly structured society
-Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (2013)
-critiques the idea that Muslim women are in need of saving by Western powers and argues that such rhetoric perpetuates colonial attitudes and simplified views of culture
→ challenges the simplistic binaries of "oppressed" vs "liberated" women, as an "imperialist logic" embedded in many humanitarian and feminist discourses

Major concepts:
-critique of Western feminist discourses that portray Muslim women as victims in need of liberation. she argues that these narratives often reproduce colonialist attitudes and fail to recognize the complex agency of women in non-Western contexts
-her focus on everyday forms of resistance expanded the concept of agency in anthropology, showing that women in patriarchal societies can navigate and challenge constraints in ways that are often invisible to outsiders
-return to cultural relativism: in her critique of universalist narratives that position Western ideals of freedom and feminism as superior, she advocates for understanding women's lives in non-Western societies in terms of their own cultural logics

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