01466cam a2200277 4500 424330966 TxAuBib 20080310120000.0 010403s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780967673745 pbk. 0967673747 pbk. (OCoLC)46766141 NjBwBT NjBwBT TxAuBib Sasson, Jean P. Princess : a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia / Jean Sasson. Windsor-Brooke edition. Van Nuys, Calif : Windsor-Brooke, 2001. 291 p. : illus., maps ; 21 cm. 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. 20080310. Sultana 1956- Women Social conditions. Saudi Arabia.