The Harem Within
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The Harem Within
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Author : Fatima Mernissi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
The Harem Within written by Fatima Mernissi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Girls categories.
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.
Dreams Of Trespass
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Author : Fatima Mernissi
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1995-09-04
Dreams Of Trespass written by Fatima Mernissi and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-04 with Religion categories.
This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review). "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.
Dreams Of Trespass
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Author : Fatima Mernissi
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 1995-09-04
Dreams Of Trespass written by Fatima Mernissi and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-04 with Religion categories.
This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review). "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.
Scheherazade Goes West
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Author : Fatema Mernissi
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2001-09-16
Scheherazade Goes West written by Fatema Mernissi and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-16 with Social Science categories.
Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt.... So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons she learned from her grandmother -- whose home was, after all, a type of prison -- the most central was that the opportunity to cross boundaries was a sacred privilege. Indeed, in journeys both physical and mental, Mernissi has spent virtually all of her life traveling -- determined to "use her wings" and to renounce her gender's alleged legacy of powerlessness. Bursting with the vitality of Mernissi's personality and of her rich heritage, Scheherazade Goes West reveals the author's unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam of clear-eyed autobiography and dazzling meta-fiction by which she relates those assorted discoveries -- add up to a deliciously wry, engagingly cosmopolitan, and deeply penetrating narrative. In her previous bestselling works, Mernissi -- widely recognized as the world's greatest living Koranic scholar and Islamic sociologist -- has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East. Now, as a writer and scholarly veteran of the high-wire act of straddling disparate societies, she trains her eyes on the female culture of the West. For her book's inspired central metaphor, Mernissi turns to the ancient Islamic tradition of oral storytelling, illuminating her grandmother's feminized, subversive, and highly erotic take on Scheherazade's wife-preserving tales from The Arabian Nights -- and then ingeniously applying them to her own lyrically embellished personal narrative. Interwoven with vivid ruminations on her childhood, her education, and her various international travels are the author's piquant musings on a range of deeply embedded societal conditions that add up, Mernissi argues, to a veritable "Western harem." A provocative and lively challenge to the common assumption that women have it so much better in the West than anywhere else in the world, Mernissi's book is an entrancing and timely look at the way we live here and now. By inspiring us to reconsider even the most commonplace aspects of our culture with fresh eyes and a healthy dose of suspicion, Scheherazade Goes West offers an invigorating, candid, and entertaining new perspective on the themes and ideas to which Betty Friedan first turned us on nearly forty years ago.
The Harem Within
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Author : Fatima Mernissi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
The Harem Within written by Fatima Mernissi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art, Modern categories.
Some Girls
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Author : Jillian Lauren
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-04-27
Some Girls written by Jillian Lauren and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.
Dreams Of Trespass Book Club Kit
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Author : Fatima Mernissi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Dreams Of Trespass Book Club Kit written by Fatima Mernissi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Book clubs (Discussion groups) categories.
Ramza
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Author : Out el Kouloub
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1994-06-01
Ramza written by Out el Kouloub and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Out el Kouloub's Ramza is the story of one woman's rebellion against her life in the harem of a wealthy Egyptian family at the turn of the century. Although she flourishes in this world, secure in the safety it provides, she comes to despise its constraints. In describing her growing awareness of the life of women in her elite milieu, Ramza paints an intimate portrait of harem life, including the methods employed by the wives and concubines to ensure the power they seek for themselves and their children. Ramza is drawn to books, music, and eventually to the men's quarter. She dares to express her physical, social, and sexual repression. The novel is a heartfelt dramatization of a piece of Egyptian feminine and feminist history set at a time when Egyptian women were struggling to come forward. It was originally published by Gallimard Press in France in 1958.
A Night In A Moorish Harem
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Author : Anonymous
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-11
A Night In A Moorish Harem written by Anonymous and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-11 with Art categories.
This is an erotic novel written in the first person. It is meant to be the story of a ship-wrecked British sailor, who spends a night in a harem and spends time with nine concubines of different nationalities.
Life After The Harem
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Author : Betül İpşirli Argit
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
Life After The Harem written by Betül İpşirli Argit and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with History categories.
The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources