Janet Abu-Lughod

Janet Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist. Quotes Except for the extermination of the Tasmanians, modern history recognizes no case in which the virtually complete supplanting of the indigenous population of a country by an alien stock has been achieved in as little as two generations. Yet this, in fact, is what has been attempted in Palestine since the beginning of the Twentieth century. Herein lies the nub of the Middle East – at once its greatest tragedy and its most perplexing but inescapable problem. The Demographic Transformation of Palestine (1971) About Abu-Lughod ...For many years the only woman in her department, she along with others established the Organization of Women Faculty at Northwestern University in the late 1960s. In the late 1970s their study of faculty salaries revealed significant gender disparities that embarrassed the administration. ...One can see traces of arguments that she developed in her later work critiquing the orientalist notion of an Islamic city, or the urban apartheid of Rabat, when she carefully explains the ways in which foreign elites separated government and social decision-making from the indigenous population for centuries. External links Category:1928 births Category:2013 deaths Category:Sociologists from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:Women academics from the United States Category:University of Chicago alumni Category:Smith College faculty Category:People from Newark Category:Women born in the 1920s