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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. The author 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 the author 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. This work 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 portrait of women's actual experiences, and of the contingencies with which they live.

Study conducted in Aligarh, Mau, Moradabad and Lucknow districts of Uttar Pradesh, India

Intro -- Contents -- List of Reviewers -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Structure of the Volume -- References -- Part I: Muslim Women Travelling -- Chapter 2: Disempowered Hosts? A Literature Review of Muslim Women and Tourism -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Essentialising Muslim Women -- 2.3 (Re)viewing Asian Muslim Women and Tourism -- 2.4 Findings and Discussion -- 2.4.1 Women as Hosts -- 2.4.1.1 Barriers Facing Women's Tourism Employment -- 2.4.1.2 Women's Empowerment Working in the Tourism Industry -- 2.4.2 Women as Guests -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Muslim Women Travellers' Constraints: A Critical Review -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Muslim Women Travellers -- 3.3 Who Is a Muslim Woman? -- 3.4 Muslim Women Travellers' Constraints in the Travel Planning Stage -- 3.5 Micro-level -- 3.5.1 Individual -- 3.5.2 Family -- 3.6 Macro -- 3.6.1 National -- 3.6.2 International -- 3.7 Issues Faced by Muslim Women During the Travel Experience -- 3.7.1 Muslim Women Wearing Hijab and Islamophobia -- 3.7.2 Halal Food -- 3.7.3 Water Friendly Washrooms -- 3.7.4 Prayer Rooms -- 3.7.5 Recreation and Leisure Privacy -- 3.8 Issues Faced by Muslim Women After Travelling -- 3.9 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Female Muslim Tourist Perceived Value in Non-OIC Countries: A Case of Indonesian Outbound Market -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Rise of Halal Tourism in Asia -- 4.3 Female Travellers and Hijabers -- 4.4 Female Muslim Tourist Perceived Value (FMTPV) -- 4.5 Muslim Tourist Satisfaction -- 4.6 Destination Experiences -- 4.7 Methodology -- 4.8 Result -- 4.9 Respondents' Travel Characteristics -- 4.10 Path Analysis -- 4.11 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Muslim Women Working in Tourism -- Chapter 5: Women's Footprint in Traditional Muslim Ethnic Communities: The Case of World Pottery Village in Iran -- 5.1 Introduction.

Religion has not ceased to seize an important place in the political scene over the last several decades. The use of religious arguments remains a common practice among political actors. Many religious movements have seen their base and their sphere of influence consolidated or contested. Currently, the influence of religions against the oppression of women brings to mind the images of chadors, burkas, and hijabs. People frequently claim that Islam oppresses women. These accusations often result in imprisoning women.
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