From Michael Burleigh’s review of longtime Saudi-ologist (The Kingdom, 1981) Robert Lacey’s new book Inside the Kingdom, which is in the October 2009 issue of Literary Review:

Unfortunately [Lacey] allows himself to be diverted into the byway (so to speak) of why lesbianism is rampant in the kingdom. Women spend a lot of time alone together, while men are bullies and brutes, naturally the products of over-indulgent mothers.