A most masculine state : gender, politics and religion in Saudi Arabia /

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Goes beyond conventional tropes describing women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political and religious forces thwarting their emancipation.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Al-Rasheed, Madawi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 43.
Subjects:
Women > Saudi Arabia > Social conditions.
Muslim women > Saudi Arabia > Social conditions.
Feminism > Saudi Arabia.
Feminism > Religious aspects > Islam.
Women and religion > Saudi Arabia.
Sex role > Saudi Arabia.
Women's rights > Saudi Arabia.
Femmes > Arabie saoudite > Conditions sociales.
Musulmanes > Arabie saoudite > Conditions sociales.
Féminisme > Arabie saoudite.
Femmes et religion > Arabie saoudite.
Rôle selon le sexe > Arabie saoudite.
Femmes > Droits > Arabie saoudite.
Feminism
Feminism > Religious aspects > Islam
Muslim women > Social conditions
Sex role
Women and religion
Women > Social conditions
Women's rights
Frau
Geschlechterrolle
Soziale Situation
Wahhabiten
Staat
Saudi Arabia
Saudi-Arabien
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the 'woman question' in Saudi Arabia
  • From 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.

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