num_pages: 240
description: Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East. Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her 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.
language: English
title: Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
titlecomplete: Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
genres: Feminism, History, Islam, Religion, Sociology, Gender, Memoir, Nonfiction, Morocco, Womens
ratings_count: 1220
publisher: Washington Square Press