Emirati Women

Abstract

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 ...