Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.