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Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood Cover Image Book Book

Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood

Mernissi, Fatima (Author).

Summary: "I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in the 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. This book is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.--Back cover.

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  • ISBN: 0201489376 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780201489378 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 0201626497
  • Physical Description: print
    242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Basic Books, [1995].

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1994.
Formatted Contents Note: My harem frontiers -- Scheherazade, the king, and the words -- The French Harem -- Yasmina's first co-wife -- Chama and the Caliph -- Tamou's horse -- The harem within -- Aquatic dishwashing -- Moonlit nights of laughter -- The men's salon -- World War II: view from the courtyard -- Asmahan, the singing princess -- The Harem goes to the movies -- Egyptian feminists visit the terrace -- Princess Budur's 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 men's stares.

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Subject: Mernissi, Fatima Childhood and youth
Muslim women Morocco Biography
Harems Morocco
Morocco Social life and customs

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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		NONFIC 964 MERNISSI ( Send Text)
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