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The Harem within,Fatima Mernissi- 9780385405423
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Title
- The Harem within
- ISBN
- 9780385405423
- EAN
- 9780385405423
- Publication Year
- 1994
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Gender Issues, Social Organisations, Biographies & True Stories
- Publication Name
- The Harem Within
- Item Height
- 240 mm
- Publisher
- Transworld LTD
- Item Width
- 165 mm
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Product Information
As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem: even if you accepted that men and women had to be kept apart, she asked, why could n't it be the women who walked freely in the streets, while the men stayed locked behind the harem gate? In this book she weaves an evocative tale of her childhood in a Fez harem in the 1940s, a period of social transition in Morocco. Yasmina, Fatima's grandmother, was one of nine co-wives. She had the freedom to ride horses out and about on her husband's farm and in the surrounding countryside, but she carried around within her the hudud, or sacred frontier, that separates women from men. Fatima's mother was an only wife, but she lived with the other women of her extended family inside an enclosed courtyard in the city, guarded by a gatekeeper whose sole duty it was to keep the women from going out in the street. Forced into seclusion, they re-created an imaginary world of their own, where enchanted princesses and adventurous winged women appeared on the terrace, in Aunt Habiba's tales and in Cousin Chama's improvised theatre. But Fatima was allowed out to cross the tiny street between the harem and the girl's school built by the nationalists fighting French colonization; and she grew to confuse living with trespassing, and freedom with communicating. In this book, the author casts an eye on the roles assigned to women and men by traditional Muslim society. She also shows the intimacy and riotous sense of fun that can unite women in an enclosed community in her memoir. Other work by the author includes Islam and Democracy , The Veil and the Male Elite and Beyond the Veil .
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Transworld LTD
ISBN-13
9780385405423
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88869413
Product Key Features
Publication Year
1994
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Harem Within
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Gender Issues, Social Organisations, Biographies & True Stories
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
240 mm
Item Width
165 mm
Additional Product Features
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United Kingdom
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- GB 724 4981 18
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