Fatima Mernissi (1940–2015)
Autor(a) de Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
About the Author
Fatema Mernissi is an Islamic feminist whose books have been published in 22 countries & have been bestsellers in many. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Obras por Fatima Mernissi
Beyond the Veil, Revised Edition: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (1975) 277 exemplares
The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam (1987) 245 exemplares
The fundamentalist obsession with women: A current articulation of class conflict in modern Muslim societies 3 exemplares
السلطانات المنسيات 2 exemplares
Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girhood 1 exemplar
Marrecos a través de sus mujeres 1 exemplar
വേലിചാടുന്ന പെൺകിനാവുകൾ | Dreams of Trespass 1 exemplar
Can we women head a Muslim state 1 exemplar
Zaboravljene vladarice u svijetu islama 1 exemplar
Femme et la loi au Maroc, La — Editor — 1 exemplar
Women in Moslem paradise 1 exemplar
Femme et pouvoirs: collection 1 exemplar
Setara di Hadapan Allah — Autor — 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology (1984) — Contribuidor — 200 exemplares
Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) (1995) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Mernissi, Fatima
- Nome legal
- فاطمة مرنيسي
- Outros nomes
- Mernissi, Fatema
- Data de nascimento
- 1940
- Data de falecimento
- 2015-11-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Marokko
- Local de nascimento
- Fès, Morocco
- Local de falecimento
- Rabat, Morocco
- Locais de residência
- Medina, Morocco
- Educação
- Brandeis University
- Ocupações
- Professor, Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco
Sociologist - Organizações
- Les caravanes civiques
Femmes, familles, enfants collective
Synergie Civique
United Nations University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Premio Príncipe de Asturias (Letters, 2003)
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Women in Islam (5)
Women and Islam (2)
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 43
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 2,122
- Popularidade
- #12,126
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 38
- ISBN
- 160
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 6
Mernissi's accounting of what it was like to grow up in a 'harem' environment are powerful. The book itself doesn't progress in a consecutive time frame, often Mernissi will relate something that happened to her since being an adult and then tie that in with stories of her childhood. For instance she mentions talking with reporters and other media types from the English-speaking world and how when she said the word 'harem' different countries held different expressions. Some had a curious and almost leering look in their eyes--imagining the Sultans with the barely clad women at their feet no doubt. Others had looks of disgust in their eyes. Regardless she never felt they understood exactly what it meant.
The book itself is about just that however--its her observations from various book tours and trips of her own that made about how each different country viewed harems. She is careful to explain that she understands that foreign media portrays the 'harem life' as something exotic and erotic, but also explains how the life is a hard and brutal one at times. Using the famous storyteller Scheherazade Mernissi explores how the harem life she grew up in and was an integral part of her culture and religion, was more about the female power and ingenuity then about erotic arts.
The book can be dry at times, but Mernissi's remarks about foreign journalists and friends reactions to her stories are priceless and full of wit. This isn't a book that is meant to be the bible on East meets West cultural clashes--this is almost a traveling journal about her observations. She doesn't claim to have all the answers, but Mernissi offers an academic and entertaining book about perceptions and viewpoints.… (mais)