Edition |
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
Description |
x, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents |
A country of one king and millions of queens -- Cockroaches and prison bars -- Dirty girls -- Mecca under siege -- Behind the veil -- My Barbie is murdered -- The forbidden satellite dish -- Employed and homeless -- Love and the falafel man -- Live free or die -- Driving while female -- In the kingdom of Saudi men -- Abouya and the king -- The rain starts with a single drop. |
Summary |
This is a memoir about living, loving, dreaming, daring, and driving while female -- in a country where it's dangerous to do all of the above. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year strict fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was religious radical, melting her brother's boy band CDs in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what a difference an education can make. By her twenties, she was a computer security engineer, one of a few women working in a desert compound built to resemble suburban America. That's when the Saudi kingdom's contradictions became too much to bear: she was labeled a slut for chatting with male colleagues, her school-age brother chaperoned her on a business trip, and while she kept a car in her garage, she was forbidden from driving on Saudi streets. Manal-al-Sharif has written a memoir about the making of an accidental activist, a story of a young Muslim woman who stood up to a kingdom of men -- and won. |
Subject |
Sharif, Manal, 1979-
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Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
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Women political activists -- Biography.
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Women automobile drivers -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
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Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
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Sharif, Manal, 1979- (OCoLC)fst01986826
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women automobile drivers. (OCoLC)fst01177331
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Women political activists. (OCoLC)fst01178374
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Saudi Arabia. (OCoLC)fst01210372
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Sharif, Manal, 1979-
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Women -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography.
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Women political activists -- Biography.
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Women automobile drivers -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Autobiographies.
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ISBN |
9781476793023 (hardcover) |
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1476793026 (hardcover) |
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9781476793047 (ebook) |
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9781476793030 |
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1476793034 |
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9781471164392 |
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147116439X |
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9781471164408 |
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1471164403 |
Standard No. |
40027281128 |
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9781476793023 52600 |
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