A Most Masculine State Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia
Abstract
The document presents a research on A Most Masculine State Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi Arabia. This book has showed that a most masculine state is today, at critical moments of historical crisis, compelled to espouse its own feminisation. It is not possible to maintain a purely masculine state, continuing to ignore feminine voices. By championing women’s causes, the authoritarian Saudi state may in the short term have succeeded in containing women’s mobilisation. But in the long term, no doubt Saudi women, like other women in the world, will try to move beyond state-sponsored feminism and achieve their dream of becoming full citizens. The journey may be long and arduous, but it has certainly started. The voices of the many Saudi women discussed in this book represent light at the end of the tunnel. This book is an attempt to capture this
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Document Type
Studies
Source
Cambridge University Press
Keywords :
Gender//Politic participation of women//Economic participation of women//Economic marginalisation//Women’s Right// Women and religion // Saudi Arabia// Sex role//