#academiaprobs

“I use the term ‘Muslim women’s rights’ ... because, as I said from the outset, the notion that there is such a thing and the work and debates framed in terms of this concept have become commonsensical.”

- Do Muslim Women Need Saving? (p. 147)

To what extent is Lila Abu-Lughod re-inscribing the myth of IslamLand with this approach? To what extent does her project of complicating what we think of when we think of “Muslim women’s rights” justify this move? At what point along a timeline or spectrum of emancipatory language does this put her?