The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi

The Harem Within: Tales of a Moroccan Girlhood

Fatema Mernissi

272 pages 1994

22 editions

nonfiction historical memoir reflective slow-paced
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In 1940, harems still abounded in Fez, Morocco. They weren't the opulent, bejeweled harems of Scherezade, but the domestic sprawl of extended families encamped around a walled courtyard that marked the edges of women's lives. Though born into this...

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