Daring to drive
Subtitle: a Saudi woman's awakening
By: Manal al-Sharif
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9781476793023
Subjects: Women political activists; Women automobile drivers; Biography; Women
Description: A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed her perspectives.
Table of contents: title: A country of one king and millions of queens; title: Cockroaches and prison bars; title: Dirty girls; title: Mecca under siege; title: Behind the veil; title: My Barbie is murdered; title: The forbidden satellite dish; title: Employed and homeless; title: Love and the falafel man; title: Live free or die; title: Driving while female; title: In the kingdom of Saudi men; title: Abouya and the king; title: The rain starts with a single drop.