Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

by Fatima Mernissi

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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 youth,women 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.
  • ISBN10 0201626497
  • ISBN13 9780201626490
  • Publish Date 1 June 1994
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 24 October 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Longman
  • Imprint Longman Higher Education
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 242
  • Language English