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Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood / Fatima Mernissi ; photographs by Ruth V. Ward.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., ©1994Copyright date: [1994]Description: 242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0201626497
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 964.0082 20 M.F.D
LOC classification:
  • CT2678.M47 A3 1994
Contents:
My harem frontiers -- Scheherazade, the king, and the words -- French Harem -- Yasmina's first co-wife -- Chama and the Caliph -- Tamou's horse -- Harem within -- Aquatic dishwashing -- Moonlit nights of laughter -- Men's salon -- World War II: view from the courtyard -- Asmahan, the singing princess -- Harem goes to the movies -- Egyptian feminists visit the terrace -- Princess Budur's fate -- Forbidden terrace -- Mina, the rootless -- American cigarettes -- Mustaches and breasts -- Silent dream of wings and flights -- Skin politics: eggs, dates, and other beauty secrets -- Henna, clay, and men's stares.
Summary: Overview: "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. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, Mernissi, who was born in a harem in 1940 in Morocco, writes with great wit and color of the politics of seductions, of the harem as a metaphor, and of the world beyond--every woman's inaccessible obsession.
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Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, ©1994.

My harem frontiers --
Scheherazade, the king, and the words --
French Harem --
Yasmina's first co-wife --
Chama and the Caliph --
Tamou's horse --
Harem within --
Aquatic dishwashing --
Moonlit nights of laughter --
Men's salon --
World War II: view from the courtyard --
Asmahan, the singing princess --
Harem goes to the movies --
Egyptian feminists visit the terrace --
Princess Budur's fate --
Forbidden terrace --
Mina, the rootless --
American cigarettes --
Mustaches and breasts --
Silent dream of wings and flights --
Skin politics: eggs, dates, and other beauty secrets --
Henna, clay, and men's stares.

Overview: "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. In a book as evocative as anything found in A Thousand and One Nights, Mernissi, who was born in a harem in 1940 in Morocco, writes with great wit and color of the politics of seductions, of the harem as a metaphor, and of the world beyond--every woman's inaccessible obsession.

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