Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Author(s): Fatima Mernissi
"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth--women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.
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Fatema Mernissi teaches sociology at University Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. She is the author of more than eight books, including Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Scheherazade Goes West, The Veil and the Male Elite, and Beyond the Veil.
* My Harem Frontiers * Scheherazade, the King, and the Words * The French Harem * Yasinas First Co-Wife * Chama and the Caliph * Tamous Horse * The Harem Within * Aquatic Dishwashing * Moonlit Nights of Laughter * The Mens Salon * World War II: View from the Courtyard * Asmahan, the Singing Princess * The Harem Goes to the Movies * Egyptian Feminists Visit the Terrace * Princess Budurs Fate * The Forbidden Terrace * Mina, the Rootless * American Cigarettes * Mustaches and Breasts * The Silent Dream of Wings and Flights * Skin Politics: Eggs, Dates, and Other Beauty Secrets * Henna, Clay, and Mens Stares
General Fields
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- : Perseus Books Group
- : Perseus Books Group
- : 0.342
- : 01 August 1995
- : 235mm X 140mm X 20mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : 964.0082
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Fatima Mernissi