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  Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Paperback) By (author) Fatima Mernissi

  

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  Short Description for Dreams of TrespassIn this narrative of a childhood in a harem, Fatima Mernissi weaves her own memories with those of the women who, deprived of access to the world, recreated it from imagination. She tells the story of a girl confronting time and place, gender and sex in the late 20th-century Muslim world.
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  • Publisher: PERSEUS BOOKS
  • Published: 14 August 1995
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Gender Studies: Women | Islamic Studies | African History
  • ISBN 13: 9780201489378 ISBN 10: 0201489376
  • Sales rank: 152,444

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• 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 youthwomen 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.