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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

By Fatima Mernissi

Book information

Publisher
Perseus Books
Year
1995
ISBN
0201489376, 9780201489378
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
4 MB (4210710 bytes)
Pages
242\0
Time added
2017-08-23 15:01:02
Africa;Historical;Biographies & Memoirs;Women;Spec

Description

”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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