A Most Masculine State

This book examines the “plight” of women and gender relations in an attempt to give voice to an excluded and marginalized group in the closed and conservative society of Saudi Arabia (pp. 1, 2). Al-Rashid problematizes the “woman question,” designating it as both a state and a social problem that d...

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Autor principal: Amr G. E. Sabet
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7d094d24ca0c41359ed346ea6e25bb922021-12-02T19:41:16ZA Most Masculine State10.35632/ajis.v31i4.10722690-37332690-3741https://doaj.org/article/7d094d24ca0c41359ed346ea6e25bb922014-10-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/view/1072https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3733https://doaj.org/toc/2690-3741 This book examines the “plight” of women and gender relations in an attempt to give voice to an excluded and marginalized group in the closed and conservative society of Saudi Arabia (pp. 1, 2). Al-Rashid problematizes the “woman question,” designating it as both a state and a social problem that defies consensus regarding its causes and solutions, where giving voice becomes the first step toward reclaiming denied rights. She contextualizes her study by looking at the historical roots and “interconnection between gender, politics, and religion that shapes and perpetuates the persistent exclusion of Saudi women” (p. 3). By so doing, Al-Rashid essentially depicts the roots of this “extreme form of gender inequality” as structural and related to the complex relationship between the Saudi state and the Wahhabi religious establishment. This relationship, which takes the form of religious nationalism, provided for a narrow definition and interpretation of just who was entitled to belong to the pious community. Narrow interpretations of rituals and jurisprudence, as well as how gender relations are to be conducted or acquire validity, both created and exacerbated the social and religious boundaries within Saudi society and between it and other Muslim cultural interpretations ... Amr G. E. SabetInternational Institute of Islamic ThoughtarticleIslamBP1-253ENAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, Vol 31, Iss 4 (2014)
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A Most Masculine State
description This book examines the “plight” of women and gender relations in an attempt to give voice to an excluded and marginalized group in the closed and conservative society of Saudi Arabia (pp. 1, 2). Al-Rashid problematizes the “woman question,” designating it as both a state and a social problem that defies consensus regarding its causes and solutions, where giving voice becomes the first step toward reclaiming denied rights. She contextualizes her study by looking at the historical roots and “interconnection between gender, politics, and religion that shapes and perpetuates the persistent exclusion of Saudi women” (p. 3). By so doing, Al-Rashid essentially depicts the roots of this “extreme form of gender inequality” as structural and related to the complex relationship between the Saudi state and the Wahhabi religious establishment. This relationship, which takes the form of religious nationalism, provided for a narrow definition and interpretation of just who was entitled to belong to the pious community. Narrow interpretations of rituals and jurisprudence, as well as how gender relations are to be conducted or acquire validity, both created and exacerbated the social and religious boundaries within Saudi society and between it and other Muslim cultural interpretations ...
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