Emirati Women Generations of Change by Jane Bristol-Rhys (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. hbk. and pbk. 145 pages.)
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Jane Bristol-Ryhs’ Emirati Women: Generations of Change provides a rare
glimpse into how the lives of Abu Dhabi women have changed as a result of
the discovery of oil in the late 1960s. Combining eight years of oral histories,
participant observation, and interviews ‒ along with her own experiences of
living and teaching in Abu Dhabi ‒ Bristol-Rhys offers a lucid ethnographic
account of a population that has been one of the most affected by Abu Dhabi’s
oil boom. Over the course of the chapters near the end of the book, Bristol-
Rhys details the experiences of three generations of Abu Dhabi women
and how they view their pre-oil past and face the challenges of the present ...
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