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A society of young women : opportunities of place, power, and reform in Saudi Arabia / Amélie Le Renard.
LIBRA HQ1730 .L423 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Le Renard, Amélie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Saudi Arabia--Social conditions.
- Young women.
- Urban women--Saudi Arabia--Social conditions.
- Urban women.
- Public spaces--Social aspects--Saudi Arabia.
- Public spaces.
- Public spaces--Social aspects.
- Social conditions.
- Saudi Arabia.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender-segregated in the world, but in recent years the Saudi government has felt increasing international pressure to offer greater roles for women in society. Implicit in these calls for reform, however, is an assumption that the only "real" society is male society. Little consideration has been given to the rapidly evolving activities within women's spaces. This book joins young urban women in their daily lives-in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mail-to show how these women are transforming Saudi cities from within and creating their own urban, professional, consumerist lifestyles. As young Saudi women are emerging as an increasingly visible social group, they are shaping new social norms. Their shared urban spaces offer women the opportunity to shed certain constraints and imagine themselves in new roles. But to feel included in this peer group, women must adhere to new constraints: to be sophisticated, fashionable, feminine, and modern. The position of "other" women-poor, rural, or non-Saudi-is increasingly marginalized. While young urban women may embody the image of a "reformed" Saudi nation, the reform project ultimately remains incomplete, drawing new hierarchies and lines of exclusion among women. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Riyadh, a city of closed spaces
- Getting around
- Coming together
- Breaking the rules
- Consuming femininities.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804785433
- 0804785430
- 9780804785440
- 0804785449
- OCLC:
- 865536713
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