Middle-aged women in Kuwait : Victims of change.

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Kuwait has undergone a profound transformation almost unparalleled in the contemporary world, as a result of the discovery and development of what subsequently proved to be one of the richest oil reserves in the world.The spectacular wealth flowing from oil has brought about staggering changes in this once relatively unimportant desert bound, tribally based community at the head of the Arabian Gulf.This once small urban society, had a commercial economy based primarily on pearl fishing, boat building and trading, with virtually no agriculture, established in the 17th Century A.D. by tribesmen ousted by intertribal conflict in the Najd region of Arabia.Gradually, it grew into one of the major trading centres of the Gulf region.'However, it was the discovery of oil in 1938, with its exploitation begun after the second world war, in 1946, which brought about the total * This phrase means literally "God be Kind with you", but its use here signifies that the mention of women is humiliating,

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