Dreams Of Trespass
Tales Of A Harem Girlhood
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- On Sale
- Sep 4, 1995
- Page Count
- 256 pages
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- ISBN-13
- 9780201489378
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$22.99 CADFormat
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“I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco . . . ”
So begins Fatima Mernissi in this illuminating 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, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination.
A beautifully written account of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place, gender and sex, Dreams of Trespass illuminates what it was like to be a modern Muslim woman in a place steeped in tradition.
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"Wonderful and enchanting.... Mernissi brings this vanished world to life."New York Times Book Review
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"A remarkable book...vits good humor is unwavering; it tempers judgmentalism with understanding; and it provides a vivid portrait of a world that most Westerners can scarcely comprehend."Washington Post Book World
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"[Mernissi] creates a necklace of tales as delightful as Scheherazade's."Elle
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