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Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
by Fatima Mernissi
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2002
- PAPER
- 240 PAGES
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With humor and depth, Mernissi (Dreams of Trespass) weaves biography, culture and a witty meditation on the myth and meanings of harems, sex and beauty in the Western and Muslim worlds. An independent-thinking modern Moroccan, Mernissi is a professor of sociology in Rabat.
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