Description
Born in 1940s Fez within the walls of a harem, Fatima Mernissi turns memory into a vivid, dreamlike journey through the women who shaped her earliest world. Blending autobiography with imaginative storytelling, she explores how desire, power, and imagination operate under social constraint—where “trespass” becomes both a private longing and a political metaphor. With wit and lyrical clarity, Mernissi illuminates the politics of seduction and the harem’s double life as both enclosure and stage for resistance. Celebrated for her incisive feminist scholarship and eloquent, story-driven voice, she offers a provocative, richly textured portrait of individuality thriving in the margins of tradition.
Available Editions
paperback
Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Published May 20, 1994
264 pages
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi.