Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems

Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
Fatima Mernissi
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2002 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES

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.  (MRC87, $16.95)





 
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