Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / Jean Sasson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Van Nuys, CA : Windsor-Brooke Books, c2001.Description: 291 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0967673747 (pbk.)
  • 9780967673745 (pbk.)
  • 0606286500
  • 9780606286503
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HQ 1730 .S27 2001
Contents:
Childhood -- Family -- My sister Sara - Divorce -- Ali -- Trip -- Journey's end -- Girlfriends -- Foreign women -- Huda -- Kareem -- Wedding -- Married life -- Birth -- Dark secrets -- Death of a king -- Woman's room -- Second wife -- Escape -- Great white hope -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Appendices: Koran on women -- Laws of Saudi Arabia -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Index.
Summary: A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression.
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Includes index.

Childhood -- Family -- My sister Sara - Divorce -- Ali -- Trip -- Journey's end -- Girlfriends -- Foreign women -- Huda -- Kareem -- Wedding -- Married life -- Birth -- Dark secrets -- Death of a king -- Woman's room -- Second wife -- Escape -- Great white hope -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Appendices: Koran on women -- Laws of Saudi Arabia -- Glossary -- Chronology -- Index.

A Saudi woman discusses what life is like for women in her country, describing how women are sold into marriage to men five times their age, are treated as their husbands' slaves, and are often murdered for the slightest transgression.

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