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Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood
- Title
- Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood / Fatima Mernissi ; photographs by Ruth V. Ward.
- Author
- Mernissi, Fatima.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Books, 1995.
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- Description
- 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Alternative Title
- Tales of a harem girlhood
- Subjects
- Note
- Originally published in 1994.
- 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 -- Skin politics: eggs, dates, and other beauty secrets -- Henna, clay, and men's stares.
- ISBN
- 0201489376 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- ocm33249730
- SCSB-4323879
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries