The Harem Within

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Doubleday, 1994 - Girls - 254 pages
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.

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My Harem Frontiers
1
Scheherazade the King and the Words
13
The French Harem
21
Copyright

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