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As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the harem gates? In this story, she tells of her childhood in a Fez harem in the 1940s, a period of social transition in Morocco.
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The harem within : tales of a Moroccan girlhood, Fatema Mernissi
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- Released
- 1988
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- Title
- The harem within : tales of a Moroccan girlhood
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Fatema Mernissi
- Released
- 1988
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN10
- 0553408143
- ISBN13
- 9780553408140
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies, Religious Topics, Religion, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Feminism, Africa, Islam, Morocco, Quran
- Original title
- Dreams of trespass
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the woman who walked freely in the streets, while men stayed locked behind the harem gates? In this story, she tells of her childhood in a Fez harem in the 1940s, a period of social transition in Morocco.