Dreams of trespass
tales of a harem girlhood
by Mernissi, Fatima.
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"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative. With a magical tale-spinner's words, this world-renowned scholar, one of the most eloquent voices of feminism in the Muslim world, weaves her own memories with dreams and fantasies of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her childhood.
It is the magic of recreating a world of one's own, navigating beyond the frontiers, that Mernissi describes with great wit and color. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, she writes of the politics of seduction and the harem as metaphor. Peopled with marvelous, wise, and funny women - all individualists - Dreams of Trespass is a provocative book whose rewards go far.
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Sueños en el umbral: memorias de una niña del harén
1996, Editorial Océano de México, Muchnik Editores
in Spanish
- 1a ed.
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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
September 1995, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
in English
0201489376 9780201489378
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Dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood
1994, Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
in English
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