A Society of Young Women

Renard, Amélie Le

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“…The cultural context of employment for women in the KSA is complex and rapidly changing. Le-Renard (2014) notes that there are two primary but somewhat conflicting discourses that pervade Saudi society and influence employment. The first is gender-based segregation, which is promoted as a central element of the Saudi identity as Islamic.…”

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“…Culturally, education and employment of women are permitted if it is consistent with their “female nature” and domestic obligations and if strict segregation of the sexes is maintained (Hamdan, 2005). On the other hand, Le-Renard (2014) argues that in this era, young Saudi’s are urged to acquire an education to build careers in the private sector, and thus participate in the country’s national development, a policy called Saudization. Saudi women are not excluded from this discourse, and everyone is encouraged to participate in education and the job market to contribute to the nationalization of jobs, especially professional jobs, replacing non-Saudis with Saudi citizens for the sake of national prosperity (Ministry of Higher Education, KSA, 2010).…”

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Peter

Alem

Knabe

2018

EDI

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to give voice to the experiences of women with disabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) who have accessed employment, to highlight the structural barriers to employment and to identify the skills they used to obtain work. Design/methodology/approach This is a phenomenological study conducted in KSA. Themes from the interviews of women with disabilities were explored using Yosso’s (2005) cultural capital conceptual framework. Findings The participants had work and career aspirations, persisted in their job search, navigated barriers, and had familial support and emotional support from their social networks, but lacked instrumental assistance in accessing work. KSA policies to support women and people with disabilities to obtain employment are not adequately enforced, and negative attitudes toward people with disabilities are widespread. Research limitations/implications The sample size is small, but these preliminary findings justify the necessity for additional research and policy development specifically focused on women with disabilities. Practical implications There is an urgent need for existing policy enforcement and a need for a national strategy promoting the employment of women and the needs of women with disabilities should be specifically included in this agenda. Originality/value There is no extant research or policy literature regarding employment and women with disabilities in the KSA. This study applies Yosso’s (2005) theory of cultural capital to women with disabilities, demonstrating its applicability outside of race/ethnicity studies and suggests that “community” is not an essential factor in building employment success.

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Peter

Alem

Knabe

2018

EDI

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“…For example, "Young Saudi women are veiled, but the veil, supposedly serving to hide the body according to official religious texts, is diverted: the shoulder abaya, fluid, embroidered, sometimes decorated with sequins, becomes a seductive fashion accessory." 29 While these transgressions seem simple, they create widespread change over time. Young women note at their universities that, "their repeated occurrence in public, in the faces of the authorities, engenders a disordering of the latter's rule."…”

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“…Saudi Women are now undertaking their own reading of religious texts and putting "together their own classifications of religious precepts, distinguishing between those they esteem necessary and those they esteem optional." 32 They do not question Islam nor Saudi culture, but they do question readings thereof. There are many Saudi women who are proud of their Muslim roots, traditional family culture.…”

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Is There Feminism in Saudi Arabia?

Hoza

2019

UFJUR

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The use of the word feminism might be problematic in trying to describe women’s movement in Saudi Arabia because of historical and social factors associated with the feminist movement. Feminism is a movement that developed out of Western context and discourse, therefore it might not properly describe what is taking place in Saudi Arabia. A comparison between women’s movements in Saudi Arabia and the Western feminist movement reveals important differences. This, however, does not mean that Saudis are not preoccupied by the theme of justice as it pertains to gender issues. The aim of this research is thus to challenge the view that Saudi women have no agency and to explore the ways they seek to shape their society and challenge oppressive systems from within their own culture and worldview. This research will discuss why feminist theory may not be the ideal, and certainly not the only system that can address oppressive systems in non-Western societies, including Saudi Arabia. Additionally, this research will describe and analyze the ways in which Saudi women are working towards defining their own views of equity and creating women's movement within their society.

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Saudi Women and Socio‐Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities

Bourdeloie

Silveri²,

Houmair³

2017

CyberOrient

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Drawing on research conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, this paper explores the specific uses of digital technologies by Saudi women. It shows how these women – whose gender identity is strongly constrained by a host of social and religious norms characterizing Saudi society – make use of digital technologies, and particularly mobile telephones. The various applications available for mobile telephony open up to them a whole range of choices on how to communicate and use photography, thus enabling them to circumvent their assigned gender identity, at least at the margin.

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A Society of Young Women

Cited by 129 publications

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Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Reassessing cultural capital: access to employment for women with disabilities in Saudi Arabia

Is There Feminism in Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Women and Socio‐Digital Technologies: Reconfiguring Identities

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