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Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood / Fatima Mernissi ; photographs by Ruth V. Ward.
LIBRA CT2678.M47 A3 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mernissi, Fatima.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mernissi, Fatima--Childhood and youth.
- Mernissi, Fatima.
- Muslim women--Morocco--Biography.
- Muslim women.
- Morocco--Social life and customs.
- Morocco.
- Harems--Morocco--Personal narratives.
- Harems.
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- Manners and customs.
- Muslim women--Morocco.
- Sex role--Morocco.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Tales of a harem girlhood
- Place of Publication:
- Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1995.
- Summary:
- "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. -- Back cover
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 1994.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0201489376
- 9780201489378
- OCLC:
- 33249730
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