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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Daring to Drive : The Young Saudi Woman Who Stood up to a Kingdom of Men
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'Manal al-Sharif was born in Mecca in 1979, the year fundamentalism took hold in the Saudi kingdom. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, burning her brother's CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. By her twenties, she had become a computer engineer, working in a desert compound that resembled suburban America. That's when the Saudi kingdom's contradictions became too much to bear: she was labelled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, she was forbidden to go on business trips unless chaperoned by her teenage brother and while she kept a car in the garage, she was forbidden from driving down city streets behind the wheel. So she took to the streets in a one-woman protest that gave birth to a movement, Women2Drive. When she openly defied the ban on women driving, she was imprisoned for nine days. A YouTube video featuring Manal brought her international exposure. Daring to Drive offers a rare glimpse, from the inside, of women's lives in modern Saudi Arabia. It is a remarkable exploration of resilience and a celebration of female solidarity.' (Publication summary)

 

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    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2017 .
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      Extent: 304p.
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      • Published July 2017

      ISBN: 9781471164392

Works about this Work

Manal Al-Sharif : Daring to Drive: The Young Saudi Woman Who Stood up to a Kingdom of Men Kathy Gollan , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2018;

'One of the pleasures of al-Sharif’s book is the insight it gives into how women negotiate their way through chinks in the wall of oppression.'

Manal Al-Sharif : Daring to Drive: The Young Saudi Woman Who Stood up to a Kingdom of Men Kathy Gollan , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2018;

'One of the pleasures of al-Sharif’s book is the insight it gives into how women negotiate their way through chinks in the wall of oppression.'

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