Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem Girlhood - Softcover

Mernissi, Fatima

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201489376 ISBN 13: 9780201489378

Publisher: Perseus Books, 1995

Synopsis

"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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Review:

"Wonderful and enchanting.... Mernissi brings this vanished world to life."--New York Times Book Review

"A remarkable book...vits good humor is unwavering; it tempers judgmentalism with understanding; and it provides a vivid portrait of a world that most Westerners can scarcely comprehend."--Washington Post Book World

"[Mernissi] creates a necklace of tales as delightful as Scheherazade's."--Elle

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perseus Books
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0201489376
• ISBN 13: 9780201489378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256