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Mernissi, Fatima.

Title Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood / Fatima Mernissi ; photographs by Ruth V. Ward.

Publication Info.	Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., [1994]
	©1994

Copies

Location	Call No.	Status
Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department	305.48697 MER	Storage
Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department	BIOGRAPHY MERNISSI, FATIMA	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	B MERNISSI	Check Shelf
University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	964 M566D	Check Shelf

Description	242 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents	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 --
Summary	A feminist in the Muslim world weaves her own memories with dreams of women who surround her in the courtyard of her childhood.
Subject	Mernissi, Fatima -- Childhood and youth.
	Muslim women -- Morocco -- Biography.
	Morocco -- Social life and customs.
Other Form:	Online version: Mernissi, Fatima. Dreams of trespass. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994 (OCoLC)608146831
	Online version: Mernissi, Fatima. Dreams of trespass. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1994 (OCoLC)624456435
ISBN	0201626497: $23.00 ($29.95 CAN)
	9780201626490

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