ISBN:
9780521761048
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (350 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Cambridge Middle East Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version A Most Masculine State
DDC:
305.4209538
Keywords:
Feminism ; Religious aspects ; Islam
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Feminism ; Saudi Arabia
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Muslim women ; Saudi Arabia ; Social conditions
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Sex role ; Saudi Arabia
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Women ; Saudi Arabia ; Social conditions
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Women and religion ; Saudi Arabia
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Women's rights ; Saudi Arabia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Goes beyond conventional tropes describing women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political and religious forces thwarting their emancipation
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the 'woman question' in Saudi ArabiaFrom religious revival to religious nationalism -- Schooling women: the state as benevolent educator -- Symbols of piety: fatwa on women in the 1980s -- The quest for cosmopolitan modernity -- Women in search of themselves -- Celebrity women novelists and the cosmopolitan fantasy -- Guarding self and nation: women preachers and activists -- Conclusion: light at the end of the tunnel.
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Gender, Politics, and Religion; Ambiguities of -Saudi' Nationalism; The Oil Factor; Women between State and Opposition; The State as Provider and Arbiter; Academic Work on Saudi Women; Methodology; The Book; 1 From Religious Revival to Religious Nationalism; The Historical Legacy: Religious Revival and Gender; Women of Oases, Women of Deserts; A Return to Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong; Religious Nationalism and Gender; The Contemporary State and Religious Nationalism; The Fusion of Gender, Religion, and Politics in Religious Nationalism; 2 Schooling WomenEarly Voices Calling for Girls' Education; From kuttab to School; Opposition to Girls' Schools; Mixed Blessings: Women and the Oil Boom of the 1970s; A Defiant Granddaughter: Lessons for the Nation; An Educated but Idle Minority; 3 Symbols of Piety; The 1980s; fatwas on Women; Women in Public Office; Womens Bodies, Bodies of the Nation; Women, Marriage, Divorce, and the Nation; Conclusion; 4 The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity; The Kings Women; State Initiatives; Debating Gender in the Public Sphere; Conclusion; 5 Women in Search of Themselves; Umayma al-Khamis: Deconstructing the LocalThe New, Bewildered Cosmopolitan Woman; Badriyya Al-Bishr: Female Violence against the Feminine; Layla Al-Jahni: The Continuity of the Age of Ignorance; Women Novelists and the Immunity of the Political; 6 Celebrity Women Novelists and the Cosmopolitan Fantasy; Raja Al-Sani: Hip-Hop Saudi Muslim Girls; Samar Al-Moqrin: Imprisoned Cosmopolitan Fantasies; Warda Abd Al-Malik: Born Again Free; Saba al-Hirz: The Body and the Hell of Others; New Womens Literature: Subversion or Heroic Resistance?; 7 Guarding Self and Nation ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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