writing against culture

is a method of avoiding generalizations in favor of highlighting the individuality of experience and contexts involving global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions.

avoid[ing] generalisations and highlight the individuality of women's experiences, . . . to show the futility of blaming culture for the oppression of Muslim women. She offers a panoramic view of women's multiple experiences in their own contexts, thereby dismissing sweeping generalisations about these women being a homogeneous oppressed mass. She urges us to look at contexts shaped by global politics, international capital and modern state institutions that all contribute to changing landscapes of family and community. Abu-Lughod reminds us that rights may be universal but above all they are projects bounded by political contexts, institutions and language.'

is writing similarities, not just differences.

would entail writing about similarities that crosscut difference and processes that introduce flux and contradiction into otherwise apparently stable wholes' (Martin 1998:29).

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writing against culture