Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
A Religion, Feminism, Nonfiction book. Son message est simple : une femme doit mener sa vie comme une nomade. Elle doit rester toujours alerte...
Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East, in works hailed as "enchanting" (The New York Times Book Review), "exuberant" (Elle), and "remarkable" (The Washington Post Book World). Now, in Scheherazade Goes West, Mernissi reveals her unique experiences as a liberated, independent Moroccan woman faced with the peculiarities and unexpected encroachments of Western culture. Her often surprising discoveries about the conditions of and attitudes toward women around the world -- and the exquisitely embroidered amalgam of clear-eyed autobiography and dazzling meta-fiction by which she...
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- Pages: 240 pages
- ISBN: 9780743412438 / 743412435
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Son message est simple : une femme doit mener sa vie comme une nomade. Elle doit rester toujours alerte et prte partir, mme si elle est aime. Car, selon Schhrazade, mme l'amour peut vous engloutir, devenir une prison. Fatema Mernissi, Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave. Fatema Mernissi, Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems ... ... ... ( ) , Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems
This is a great book to refer to when caught up in a heated discussion about the perception of women in the west vs. the east. This book almost takes us to private rooms through time and space and in which the dynamics between men and women are more easily understood. Scheherazade is ultimately the storyteller (with samar; the ability... While it is possible to read this book prior to reading Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, I would recommend reading Dreams first.This book looks at the idea of the harem from the Western male view, something which confuses Mernissi because her view of the harem is radically different (and more accurate). Her conclusions,... Slightly repetitive at moments but nonetheless quite fascinating. The central question of the book, one could say, is why do Western men smile when they hear the word harem? And what does this tell us about the differences in gender relations in different places? It's a short, fairly quick read, and an interesting one. And I'm definitely...
