A Most Masculine State Gender Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia 1st Edition by Madawi Al Rasheed 0521761042 9780521761048

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ISBN 10: 0521761042

ISBN 13: 9780521761048

Author: Madawi Al Rasheed

Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed’s new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the historical, political and religious forces that have, across the years, delayed and thwarted their emancipation. The book demonstrates how, under the patronage of the state and its religious nationalism, women have become hostage to contradictory political projects that on the one hand demand female piety, and on the other hand encourage modernity. Drawing on state documents, media sources and interviews with women from across Saudi society, the book examines the intersection between gender, religion and politics to explain these contradictions and to show that, despite these restraints, vibrant debates on the question of women are opening up as the struggle for recognition and equality finally gets under way.

A Most Masculine State Gender Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia 1st Table of contents:

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 Women

Early 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 Local

The 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

The Education of the New Religious Women

New Religious Women

Diversity among Female Activists

Traditional Salafi Daiyat

Islamist Women and Current Affairs

Critical Islamist Voices

Conclusion

Authoritarian States and Women: Low Cost, High Profit

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