Gender, monarchy, and national identity in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The heading on a broadside posted in public places in Riyadh read, 'here are the names of the sluts who advocate vice and corruption on the earth'. The broadside had been circulated by the mutawwi'in, the morals policemen of Saudi Arabia, in the wake of the women's driving demonstration of 6 November 1990. Listed under the heading were the names and ages of 49 women from well-known families, and prominently displayed at the top were the names of five women with the title 'doctor'.1