A most masculine state : gender, politics, and religion in Saudi Arabia / / Madawi Al-Rasheed.

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Superior document:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 43
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 43.
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Physical Description:xii, 333 p.
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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.