When exploring informal folk heritage, we can see that women in eastern Arabia are active agents of building female identity that are endowed with personalities which compete with those of men, albeit in different fields.

This book tells a different story about women: a story of women as builders of popular identity, consolidators of popular beliefs and as challengers to Arabian men from within the Arab culture. It describes how Arabian women have mastered their culture and claimed their share of public/private spaces via accepted cultural codes throughout history.