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Originally Posted by Moon
I'm curious, how do poor women without a pool or air conditioned homes/cars and no money for expensive shopping centres spend the day?
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I just finished reading a book " At The Drop of a Veil" by Marianne Alireza. Fantastic true account of her life in Saudi during 40s to 60s. It is out of print, I bought it 2nd hand.
Marianne Alireza is an American woman who meet her husband at Uni.
She spent her day with the women folk of the family, they cooked, played various games, looked after the children, visited friends or they visited her family. They were a well off family, and less restricted that many of that era, but always wore the abaya outdoors. From what I gathered the poorer folk had similar but more restrictive lives and worked a lot harder to make ends meet.
The poor of today I can only guess, but I would think life is pretty hard for them, the men as well as they have to make ends meet day in and day out, but of course they can come and go more or less as they please. The women would be bound to the home or close to it. Friends and family and children, would be the mainstay of these women I would think
The book really gave a great insight into life in Saudi during its move from a poor nation to being oil rich.