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.

她们是谁？ 她们是家庭主妇、医院护士、学校教师、工厂职工， 她们也是女儿、母亲、妻子、儿媳， 她们是大时代里平凡的女性。 倾听100多位阿嬷的生命故事， 在她们的讲述中发现历史。 本书是台湾“中研院”近史所研究员游鉴明运用口述材料研究女性历史的学术专著。书稿收录了她对收集整理女性口述史料，以及挖掘、研究女性口述历史的观点和看法。采写对象多为台湾女性，采写内容为她们个人的生活经历，部分内容涉及其在1949年前在大陆生活的经验，对有志于了解、从事口述历史的读者有很好助益。

This book is an introductory textbook on sexual politics and an original contribution to the reformulation of social and political theory. In a discussion of, among other issues, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminist theories, the structure of gender relations, and working class feminism, the author has produced a work of synthesis and scholarship which should be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, politics, women's studies and to anyone interested in the field of sexual politics.

这本著作是一个遵循芝加哥学派城市研究的传统，结合当代性别研究和社会运动的城市民族志，选择的视角是一个中国社会分化剧烈，全球化和本土化激烈碰撞的背景下一个都市亚文化社区的形成和变迁。全书是围绕“公开”来展开的，包括三层逐步推进的涵义：（1)公开一个被边缘的性别身份；（2）寻求和拓展公共空间；（3）参与公共领域和市民社会的构建。关于成都同志亚文化社区的研究，提供了一个非常有趣而独特的角度去理解中国社会的深刻变化。

《都市里的农家女(性别流动与社会变迁)》是有关20世纪末加入大规模城市流动——包括流动到北京和其他城市的中国农村女性经验的一项迷人研究。它在深度民族志研究的基础上，试图理解流动者本身是如何体验流动的。作者集中关注从农村到城市的流动者，特别是女性流动者的经验，关注她们谈论那些经验的独特方式，以及那些经验如何影响了她们的认同意识。通过对都市里的农家女的一手材料的说明，作者提供了关于农村女性与城/乡经验之间如何协调的有价值见解，以及这些经验如何影响她们的世界观、价值观和人际关系的方式。《都市里的农家女(性别流动与社会变迁)》对于我们理解社会性别与社会变迁之间的关系，以及全球化与现代化如何在最个人的层面上得到体验的方式，作出了重要的贡献。