Writing the Feminine
Subtitle: Women in Arab Sources (The Islamic Mediterranean)
Contributors: Randi Deguilhem (Editor); Manuela Marin (Editor)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: June 29, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781860646973
Subjects: Cultural studies; Islam; Women's studies; Muslim women; History; Social Science; Women in Islam; Sociology; Islamic countries; General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Gender Studies; Legal status, laws, etc. (Isla; Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law); Women
First sentence: In her autobiographical The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Childhood, Fatima Mernissi describes her grandfather's polygamous household, a household in which nine wives and concubines had to live together and where the special position of the first wife, her grandfather's paternal cousin, had to be accepted by all.