by Fatema Mernissi · Giunti Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788809797208
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«La terrazza proibita: Vita nell'harem» is the memoir by Fatema Mernissi, published by Giunti Editore in paperback (240 pages, in Italian).
Fatema Mernissi reconstructs her childhood in a harem in Fez in the 1940s: a spacious house with courtyards, fountains and numerous women, whose freedom is limited by male authority. The author links the domestic and the historical to reflect the tension between tradition and modernization in Morocco and the female longing for emancipation.
Work originally published in 1994 as «Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood»; this Italian edition, translated by Rosa Rita D'Acquarica, belongs to the Tascabili Giunti collection.
For readers of memoirs, Moroccan social history and gender studies; also for those interested in the lives of women in the Islamic world.
Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
