Jean P. Sasson
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Jean Sasson was born in 1947 in Troy, Alabama. She is an American writer whose work mainly centers around women in the Middle East. Sasson lived in Saudi Arabia for twelve years as an admisitrative coordinator of medical affairs for a specialist hospital. He books include: The Rape of Kuwait, and mostra altro the bestselling Princess Trilogy -- Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess Sultana's Daughters, and Princess Sultana's Circle. She also wrote Growing Up bin Laden. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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- Data di nascita
- 1950
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Troy, Alabama, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Saudi Arabia
Troy, Alabama, USA
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- writer
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 31
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 4,345
- Popolarità
- #5,775
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 96
- ISBN
- 269
- Lingue
- 21
- Preferito da
- 5
I have been given glimpses throughout my life of societies where men are dominant, women inferior. I've even been in a couple of relationships of that sort, and thought myself hard done by. I cannot lessen the damage that certain men have meted out to me, but held against the horrors in Saudi Arabia it is like a single thorn in a prickly rose bush. Did you know that women could be stoned to death or drowned at a patriarch's whim? Or shut into a windowless dark room at the age of 22, and never be allowed out again, not until you die and they remove your body? Every day Saudi Arabian women risk death, punishment, brutality, and humiliation.
It is a land of child marriages, of men with several wives, where female children are a disappointment, where a woman can be cast off if she is barren or if she does not bear sons. It was in this kingdom that a Washington Post reporter just last year was chopped into bits with a chain saw while still alive. I am so glad tourists are not permitted into the Saudi kingdom, because I would hate to travel there.
For all that I found out appalling things while reading Princess, I didn't really enjoy the book. Part of that was the content, but part was because I found the woman describing these events annoying, for all that she does to help improve the situation of women in Saudi Arabia. Honestly, I'm not even sure why I wasn't enjoying the book, or at least reading it with interest. But I didn't.
An interesting book, I won't be reading the follow-up volumes.… (altro)