U.S. foreign policy and Muslim women's human rights
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In: Pennsylvania studies in human rights
In: Diplomatic history, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 650-653
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: Diplomatic history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 387-408
ISSN: 1467-7709
In: Human rights quarterly, Band 38, Heft 2, S. 537-539
ISSN: 1085-794X
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 553-573
ISSN: 1474-449X
On 6 November 1990, nearly 50 Saudi women staged a protest against the ban on women operating motor vehicles in Saudi Arabia. Occurring in the midst of the First Gulf War, the women's protest was a political statement about the harsh restrictions placed on women in the Middle Eastern country which both reflected and influenced Saudi society's encounter with their American allies during the war. When United States (US) military personnel flooded into Saudi Arabia during the war, they were shocked at the way American servicewomen were treated by their Saudi allies and the second-class status of Saudi women throughout the country. This article explores Americans' reactions to their encounter with Saudi gender relations during the war and argues that the poor treatment of women in Saudi Arabia-which Americans dubbed 'gender apartheid'-caused many Americans to question the longstanding US alliance with the conservative Muslim country. In doing so, US journalists, military personnel, scholars and the general public began to demand that concern about women's rights should be integrated seriously into US foreign policy towards the Muslim world. Adapted from the source document.
In: Cambridge review of international affairs, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 553-573
ISSN: 1474-449X
In: A Companion to Harry S. Truman, S. 362-388