Showing Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi

Paperback. Pub the Date: 1995 08 Pages: 256 in Publisher: Perseus Books I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez Morocco ... So begins Fatima Mernissi in the this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass. Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams and memories of the women who surrounded her in the courtyard of her youthwomen who. deprived of access to the world outside. recreated it from sheer imagination. Dreams of Trespass is the provocative story of a girl confronting the mysteries of time and place. gender and sex in the recent Muslim world.