[PDF] Women In Saudi Arabia Today eBook

Author : M. Almunajjed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1997-02-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230373100

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The book studies the social issues related to the status of women in Saudi Arabia and the extent to which Saudi Arabian women actively participate in the development of their country. It also focuses on education and work outside the home as they affect the traditional role of the Saudi woman as wife, mother and homemaker. At the same time, those factors promote the participation of women in the development of Saudi Arabia. The book examines also the quality of Saudi women's lives in a traditional society and the meaning of their social reality. Intensive interviews were held with 100 Saudi women in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from different social, economic and educational levels.

Author : Mona AlMunajjed
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
ISBN : 9780312129880

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The study focuses on education and work outside the home as they affect the traditional role of the Saudi woman as wife, mother and homemaker. At the same time those factors promote the participation of women in the development of Saudi Arabia.

Author : Anita C. Butera
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 2021-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793607257

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Saudi women are the most powerful symbol of their rapidly-changing country. The Western political and academic debate has presented activists such as Loujain Al Hathloul and Samar Badawi as the heroic voice of all Saudi women. The Saudi government has focused, instead, on a nationalistic rhetoric that presents Saudi women as the willing, obedient, and heroic handmaids of the New Saudi Arabia who speak with the voice of the Enlightened Prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Ironically, both approaches have silenced the people they are meant to empower, Saudi women. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the Eyes of Saudi Women argues that Saudi women cannot be empowered by the imposition from above of Western-inspired reforms and that the future of Saudi Arabia is firmly grounded in its past. Anita Butera provides a unique account of Saudi women’s voices and their dreams for the future of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The author concludes that MbS, by allowing the entrance of women into public space independently from men, has allowed Saudi women to start a silent revolution that is changing the patriarchal system of Saudi Arabia and challenging the masculine nature of Saudi power.

Author : Amelie Le Renard
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804791376

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The cities of Saudi Arabia are among the most gender segregated in the world. 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 mall—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 women—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.

Author : Saddeka Arebi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231084215

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This study explores how contemporary Saudi women writers use their writings as a way to gain control over the rules of cultural discourse in their society. The author examines the work of nine influential women writers and presents excerpts of their writings which appear here for the first time in English.

Author : Manal Sharif
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476793026

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A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.

Author : Hend T. Alsudairy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1443893285

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The first book to situate the Saudi woman in a broader cultural context, this text explores a variety of themes, historical developments, and social taboos. It also investigates a wide range of writing by Saudi women, beginning with the first attempt by a woman to write for the public in the middle of the twentieth century up to the peak of the Saudi woman’s literary production in this millennium. It is also concerned with the Saudi woman’s social, economic, and religious contributions, making it possible for the reader to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the reality of Saudi women through studying and connecting the Saudi woman’s past with her present. As such, this book represents a major contribution to the study of women in the Middle East, and offers a unique contrast between fictional presentation and lived experience.

Author : Dalal bint Makhlad HĐarbi
Publisher : Garnet & Ithaca Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780863723278

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Women's contributions to Arabic and Islamic society - be they cultural, religious, medical, or military - have been recorded by Muslim historians throughout the ages. No biographical dictionary of any worth was considered complete unless it mentioned prominent women, a tradition stemming from the earliest Islamic biographies which all included the female companions of the Prophet, as well as mothers of notable men. However, little has been written about the contribution of women from more recent contemporary central Arabian society. Published in association with Saudi Arabia's King Abdul Aziz Foundation for Research and Archives, Prominent Women from Central Arabia explores sources ranging from published material to manuscripts, documents, and oral history in an attempt to redress the balance. In all, the book contains 52 biographies of women who lived from the beginning of the 18th century until the death of King 'Abd al-'Aziz al-Saud in 1953. The women examined include notable poets, educators, and great donors of charitable works, amongst others. Above all, the book highlights the enormous contribution of the women of Central Arabia during the period under consideration, demonstrating that, contrary to popular misconception, their influence has in fact been highly significant.

Author : Nicola Sutcliff
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Saudi Arabia
ISBN : 9781528868273

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This title provides an authentic and eye-opening collection of interviews with 30 women from all walks of life in Saudi Arabia. At a time when the Kingdom appears to be on the cusp of change, this unique book captures the essence of what it is like to be a woman living in Saudi Arabia today.