TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mernissi,Fatima
AU  - Ward,Ruth V.
TI  - Dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood 
SN  - 0201626497 
AV  - CT2678.M47 A3 1994
U1  - 964.0082 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Reading, Mass.
PB  - Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
KW  - Mernissi, Fatima
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Morocco
KW  - Biography
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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