Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780201489378ISBN-10:201489376UPC:9780201489378Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, AfricaBook Topic:NorthSize:9.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCK2PJ67FA
This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review). "I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco . . . "
So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating 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, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. A beautifully written account of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex, Dreams of Trespass illuminates what it was like to be a modern Muslim woman in a place steeped in tradition.
So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating 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, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. A beautifully written account of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex, Dreams of Trespass illuminates what it was like to be a modern Muslim woman in a place steeped in tradition.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780201489378ISBN-10:201489376UPC:9780201489378Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, AfricaBook Topic:NorthSize:9.10 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.6504Product ID:SCK2PJ67FA
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.
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