TY  - BOOK
AU  - Le Renard,Amélie
AU  - Le Renard,Amélie
TI  - A society of young women: opportunities of place, power, and reform in Saudi Arabia 
SN  - 9780804785433
AV  - HQ1730 .L423 2014
U1  - 305.242/209538 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Young women
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Urban women
KW  - Public spaces
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - gtt
KW  - Offentliga platser
KW  - sociala aspekter
KW  - sao
KW  - Sociala förhållanden
KW  - Unga kvinnor
KW  - Kvinnor i städer
KW  - Saudi-Arabië
KW  - Saudiarabien
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-202) and index; Riyadh, a city of closed spaces -- Getting around -- Coming together -- Breaking the rules -- Consuming femininities
N2  - 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
ER  -