When I was doing my PhD fieldwork about the transforming femininities of young Saudi women fifteen years ago, I was shocked by the stereotypical discourses many French residents I met there held on Saudi people. After finishing my PhD, I started working on the ..
Amélie Le Renard
Amélie Le Renard is a permanent researcher at CNRS. She is interested in gender studies, postcolonial feminism, and intersectionality. She has published A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Space, Power and Reform in Saudi Arabia (Stanford University Press, 2014), Western Privilege. Work, Intimacy and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai (Stanford University Press, 2021) and, in French, with Abir Kréfa, Genre et féminismes au Moyen-Orient et au Maghreb (Editions Amsterdam, 2020). She has also co-written, with Ahmed Kanna and Neha Vora, Beyond Exception. New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula (Cornell University Press, 2020).