Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood

Author

Mernissi, Fatima.

Title

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

Format

Book

Published

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994.

Description

242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

• My harem frontiers
• Scheherazade, the king, and the words
• The French Harem
• Yasmina's first co-wife
• Chama and the Caliph
• Tamou's horse
• The harem within
• Aquatic dishwashing
• Moonlit nights of laughter
• The men's salon
• World War II: view from the courtyard
• Asmahan, the singing princess
• The Harem goes to the movies
• Egyptian feminists visit the terrace
• Princess Budur's fate
• The forbidden terrace
• Mina, the rootless
• American cigarettes
• Mustaches and breasts
• The silent dream of wings and flights

• Skin politics: eggs, dates, and other beauty secrets
• Henna, clay, and men's stares.

Summary

A feminist in the Muslim world weaves her own memories with dreams of women who surround her in the courtyard of her childhood.

Subject headings

Mernissi, Fatima.

Kinsey subjects

Harem.
Islam.
Biographies of women.
Sex customs--Morocco.
Social customs--Morocco.
Social conditions--Morocco.

ISBN

0201626497 :
9780201626490