ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the alternative ways the Saudi women leaders understood feminism to explore different ways of knowing, seeing, and being. The women drew on a variety of discourses to describe their “feminist” conceptions, which included but were not limited to: (1) humanism and not feminism, (2) equal but different thesis, (3) The Theft of History, and (4) Islam and the feminist debate. The women addressed the importance of contextualizing feminism and its necessary alignment to Islamic teachings. Furthermore, this chapter provides a discussion on the power of a discourse versus the power over a discourse, consolidating the findings of the book while answering the three research questions underpinning this study. In other words, a discussion on the enabling and constraining powers of discourses is ensued, which reveals how structure and agency are not dichotomous and/or opposing relationships.
