Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood
- Author
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Mernissi, Fatima.
- Title
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Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood / Fatima Mernissi ; photographs by Ruth V. Ward.
- Format
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Book
- Published
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Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994.
- Description
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242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Contents
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- 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
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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
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Mernissi, Fatima.
- Kinsey subjects
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Harem.
Islam.
Biographies of women.
Sex customs--Morocco.
Social customs--Morocco.
Social conditions--Morocco.
- ISBN
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0201626497 :
9780201626490