TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alsharekh,Alanoud
ED  - London Middle East Institute.
TI  - The Gulf family: kinship policies and modernity 
SN  - 0863566804 (pbk.)
U1  - 306.830953 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Saqi in association with London Middle East Institute, SOAS
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Persian Gulf States
KW  - Family policy
KW  - Saudi Arabia
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Rulers, merchants and shaikhs in Gulf politics / J.E. Peterson --  Transnational merchant families in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Gulf / James Onley --  Changing circumstances : Gulf trading families in the light of free trade agreements, globalization and the WTO / Jean-François Seznec --  The oil boom and its impact on women and families in Saudi Arabia / Salwa al-Khateeb --  Gender, family and the new politics of the 2006 Kuwaiti election / Alanoud Alsharekh --  Family in the kinship state / Ali al-Tarrah --  Struggling for primacy : the ruling family and the state in contemporary Bahrain / Fred H. Lawson --  The family's role in the economy of the kingdom of Bahrain / Shaikha Hind bint Salman al-Khalifa --  Marriage, status and the politics of nationality in Oman / Mandana E. Limbert
ER  -