The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the Eyes of Saudi Women

Anita C. Butera (Author)

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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.

Table of Contents

Preface – Feminizing Saudi Arabia

Acknowledgements

Part I

Part I Introduction- The Saudi Arabia That Is: Politics, Religion, and Oil

Chapter 1- The Warrior King and the Birth of Saudi Arabia: Turning Defeats into Victories

Chapter 2- The International Becoming of Saudi Arabia: Reforms, PanIslamism, Wahhabism, and Women

Chapter 3- Distorted Economic Growth of Consumption: Kafala, Oil, and Radical Jihadism

Chapter 4- Governing Saudi Arabia: Religion is Power

Chapter 5- Reforming the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: King Salman and Mohammed bin Salman

Part II

Part II Introduction- The Saudi Arabia That Can Be: Women, Patriarchy, and Change

Chapter 6- Globalization, Westernization, and Nationalism: Saudi Vision 2030 and Women

Chapter 7- The Feminization of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Legal Profession and the Majlis Al Shura

Chapter 8- Reforming Family Relations: Marriage, Divorce, and Child Custody

Chapter 9- Social Stratification and the New Saudi Arabia:

Product details

Published	Nov 03 2021
Format	Hardback
Edition	1st
Extent	194
ISBN	9781793607249
Imprint	Lexington Books
Illustrations	1 tables;
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Anita C. Butera

The book provides an innovative insight into the changes within Saudi Arabia, particularly as a result of the monarchy’s combination of economic, legal, and political reforms that opened spaces for women. The author is able to offer readers a deeper analysis of the legal system and the role of new generations of Saudi women lawyers because she helped give them legal training. By assessing women’s new status under the Saudi regime, the author also takes a different approach to the criticism leveled by feminist activists who question the monarchy’s support among women and whether women genuinely enjoy more rights. This is a timely book to understand changes in Islamic societies from a different perspective than the Western conception of modernity.

Arturo Alvarado Mendoza, El Colegio de Mexico