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Presented by: the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association and Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 2013. [  SM/TS 04-04-2013 @ ACL-MAIN ]

Presented by: the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association and Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 2013. [  SM/TS 04-04-2013 @ ACL-MAIN ]

Presented by: the National Endowment for the Humanities in cooperation with the American Library Association and Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 2013. [  SM/TS 04-04-2013 @ ACL-MAIN ]

Record details

ISBN:9780201489378

ISBN:0201489376

Physical Description:242 p. : ill. ;  24 cm. 

Publisher:New York :Basic Books,c1995. 

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1994. 

Summary, etc.: 

Fatima Mernissi tells a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem and weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youth--women who, deprived of access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination.  Mernissi describes the politics of seductions, of the harem as a metaphor, and of the world beyond--every woman's inaccessible obsession.