Date of Award
1-1-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Department
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
First Advisor
Karen Feste, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Nader Hashemi
Keywords
Elections, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Participation, Political activists, Repression, Women
Abstract
In 2015 Saudi Arabian women were for the first time in history granted political space through electoral suffrage. To evaluate whether the new political opening for Saudi Arabian women has improved women's rights and equality in the Kingdom, I sought to conduct interviews to acquire their views and attitudes. In the process my encounters with Saudi Arabian women revealed their fear, cautiousness, and unwillingness to participate politically, which impelled me to discover the relationship between women's political participation and political repression. In the course of this research I learned that political repression inhibits women's political participation, and in Saudi Arabia women remain voiceless despite the new political space - political participation did not account for political freedoms. This thesis provides analysis of the relationship by demonstrating the prevalence of Saudi Arabian women's lack of freedom in political participation.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Azimova, Amalkhon Y., "Political Participation and Political Repression: Women in Saudi Arabia" (2016). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1186.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1186
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Rights holder
Amalkhon Y. Azimova
File size
146 p.
Copyright date
2016
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
International Relations, Political Science, Gender Studies
Included in
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, International and Area Studies Commons, Political Science Commons