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18. Medienworkshop - Gender Representations in the Gulf

Forscherinnengruppe Arabische Massenmedien und transregionale Netzkulturen

01.07.2021 – 02.07.2021

 

Die Forscherinnengruppe "Arabische Massenmedien und (trans)regionale Netzkulturen" organisiert für den 1. - 2. Juli 2021 in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Sprachpraxiskurs Arabisch "Blogging und Vlogging in arabischsprachigen Kontexten" den 18. Medienworkshop des Instituts für den Nahen und Mittleren Osten, LMU München.

 

Lecture on 1 July 2021 at 4.30 pm:

Dr. Amélie Le Renard Transforming Femininities in Saudi Arabia

Women's rights in Saudi Arabia are a central theme in media and governmental discourse about the country. This talk analyzes the successive Saudi governments' strategic uses of women's rights and the ongoing transformations of femininity norms in Saudi society. What do Saudi women's lifestyles tell us about power relations between the state and its subjects, women and their relatives, citizens and migrants?

The sociologist Dr. Amélie Le Renard has been researching about gender, class and race in cities of the Arabian Peninsula since more than a decade. Among her publications are Femmes et espaces publics en Arabie Saoudite (Dalloz, Paris, 2011), which was published in Arabic by the Arab Network for Research and Publishing in 2013 and adapted in English under the title A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power and Reform (Stanford University Press, 2014). Her most recent publications are a monograph entitled Western Privilege. Work, Intimacy and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2021) and a collaborative work with the two anthropologists Ahmed Kanna and Neha Vora titled Beyond Exception. New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula, published by Cornell University Press in 2020.

 

Workshop on 2 July 2021 from 9.00 - 12.00 pm:

 

Workshop description
The topic of gender representations in the Middle East has been discussed in academia at least since the 1990s and the seminal works of Lila Abu Lughod, Beth Baron and Margot Badran (among others). It has always been a challenging subject where resistance was directed against more than one system (patriarchy, colonialism, capitalism, etc.). In our workshop we will discuss different strategies within these intertwined struggles, and reflect on how such questioning is renewed with regard to the Gulf countries and their specific constructions of gender and nation.

 

Program

1 July 2021

4.30 pm Lecture by Dr. Amélie Le Renard

2 July 2021

9.00 am Introduction

9.15 – 9.45 am Q&A related to Dr. Amélie Le Renard's lecture

Le Renard, Amélie. “Young Urban Saudi Women's Transgressions of Official Rules and the Production of a New Social Group”. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Vol. 9, no. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 108-135.

9.45 – 10.30 am Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions

Abu Lughod, Lila. “Feminist Longings and Postcolonial Conditions”. In L. Abu Lughod (ed.). Remaking Women. Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, 1998, pp. 3-33.

10.45 – 11.45 am Women and Words in Saudi Arabia and Sexual Stereotyping in Abu Dhabi

Arebi, Saddeka. “Conclusions and Implications”. In Women and Words in Saudi Arabia, 1994, pp. 268-299.
Bristol-Rhys, Jane und Osella, Caroline. “Contexts of Respectability and Freedom: Sexual Stereotyping in Abu Dhabi”. New Diversities Vol. 20, no. 2 (2018), pp. 1-20.

11.45 – 12.00 am Concluding discussion

 

 

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Organisation:

Dr. Bettina Gräf und Hanna Friedel



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