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

By:

Mernissi, Fatima [author]

Contributor(s):

Ward, Ruth V [photograph]

Material type: Text

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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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library B12	964.0082 M.F.D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00006751
Books	Main library B12	964.0082 M.F.D (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00006881

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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