Scheherazade Goes West: Different Cultures, Different Harems

Fatema Mernissi, the world-renowned Islamic feminist, has shed unprecedented light on the lives of women in the Middle East.

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 relates those assorted discoveries — add up to a deliciously wry, engagingly cosmopolitan, and deeply penetrating narrative.

• Author
• Fatema Mernissi

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• Washington Square Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780743412438

• Genres
• feminism, islam, morocco, history, religion, memoir, womens, gender, philosophy

• Release date
• 2002