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• W343011387 abstract "Women and Words in Saudi Arabia: The Politics of Literary Discourse, by Saddeka Arebi. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xii + 299 pages. Notes to p. 329. Bibl. to p. 346. Index to p. 357. $49.50 cloth; $17.50 paper. In this remarkable book, gifted author and anthropologist introduces world about which American readers know little and cannot even imagine-the world of Saudi women writers. Saddeka Arebi, herself writer in her native Arabic, discloses in compelling narrative the turbulent, and at times precarious, literary politics challenging Saudi women writers. It is exciting to read how Saudi women, those suffering most from cultural restrictions among Arab women, have brought about transformations in their own situations and in gender discourse by joining peacefully into the battle of words about themselves! Within only few decades women in Saudi Arabia have become their own voice of the voiceless. Debate about women in Saudi Arabia can never be the same again, one would imagine, as the subjects of discourse have joined the ranks of those discoursing. The monopoly of control over women and words by men has been broken through women's own actions in the publication of themselves and their words. The very fact that the `ulama (religious scholars) have issued fatwas (Islamic decrees) in response to women's writings is an indication of how seriously men have taken women's contributions to the dialogue about themselves and their place in society! On the Saudi scene, literary discourse is battlefield where conflicting forces wield words as weapons to promote their own interests and policies. Women are at the center of this war. The Saudi `ulama, state and those pressuring for modernization, in their struggles for power and legitimacy, wield women as symbols, endlessly defining them and pronouncing on how their modesty and behavior demonstrate Saudi identity and Islamic commitment. Women are seen as a gateway of Westernization (p. 18). Thus, by controlling women and their words it is thought that men and all of society can be controlled as well. Since the 1960s, however, with the spread of education for females, women's voices have entered the literary fray. Women have become not only subjects of discourse, but active agents in defining history, society and gender by sending their words out into the public while remaining appropriately invisible themselves. The potential pitfalls for women of this active role are many. With sex segregation required, women cannot interact with non-related males and must avoid actions and topics which might threaten their reputation and family honor. The authorities would see publications advocating Western-style women's liberation as dangerous to the nation's welfare and reason for further restrictions on women. Arebi analyzes the work of nine main authors who represent variety of literary genres and political stances in order to investigate how Saudi women writers cautiously resist dominant discourses. …" @default.
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