Media in category fatima mernissi the following 2 files are in this category, out of 2 total. The renowned moroccan sociologist and author fatima mernissi, who has died aged 75, was an important and influential figure in arab islamic feminism. Join facebook to connect with fatima mernissi and others you may know. She left a legacy that will continue to inspire generations of men and women the world over.
If youre having troubles, you just swim in the water, stretch out in a field, or look up at the stars. Tales of a harem girlhood, scheherazade goes west, the veil and the male elite, and beyond the veil. An historical and theological enquiry, mernissi shows her anger due to the. Nov 12, 2009 the very title, for instance, is thought provoking. The western a womens harem fatema mernissi fatema mernissi 1940, a moroccan. Buy the harem within new edition by mernissi, fatima isbn. The idea that our societys rigid, harsh, and downright expectations of womens bodies create an environment as restrictive and demeaning as a 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 youth women who, without access to the world outside, recreated it from sheer imagination. Fatima mernissi is currently considered a single author. But fatima mernissi examined fifteen centuries of islamic history and discovered that the critics were wrong. The following entry presents an overview of mernissi s career through 2001. Fatema mernissi top 100 women world news the guardian. The author argues that western femininity is dictated by males, a scenario that she empathizes when compared to eastern femininity.
From its openingi was born in a harem in 1940 in fez, a ninthcentury moroccan cityto its closing questions about the nature of power between men and women, this one reads as part fairy tale, part feminist manifesto. Mernissi s work is extremely influential in islamic feminism, intersectionality, and global feminism, by focusing on issues surrounding muslim women in the arab world. Dec 10, 2015 fatema mernissi, a moroccan sociologist who was one of the founders of islamic feminism, whose work included studies of the sexual politics of islamic scripture and a book based on her childhood. The renowned moroccan sociologist and author fatima mernissi, who has died aged 75, was an important and influential figure in. The christian perspective on womens status and role in islamic societies is. Dec 10, 2015 remembering islamic feminist fatema mernissi mernissi, a moroccan sociologist whose books include beyond the veil, islam and democracy and dreams of trespass, died in morocco on nov. Mar 08, 2016 when i was an undergraduate, two books were all the rage in the circles i moved in. Her first book beyond the veil was a revelation and a call. Mar 07, 2011 f rom veils to polygamy, islamic feminist fatema mernissi fearlessly tackles the most controversial customs in the muslim world. Fatema mernissi teaches sociology at university mohammed v in rabat, morocco.
Mernissis work is extremely influential in islamic feminism, intersectionality, and global feminism, by focusing on issues surrounding muslim women in the arab world. She is the author of more than eight books, including dreams of trespass. Beyond the veil by fatima mernissi overdrive rakuten. This is part of our collection of over 120 maintained national merger control. Born in fez to a middleclass family, mernissi studied at the mohammed v university in rabat and later went to paris, where she worked briefly as a journalist.
Although her parents had a monogamous marriage, she grew up living in a harem with her mother and grandmother, who was one of her grandfathers nine wives. So begins fatima mernissi in this illuminating narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. The western womens harem essay this essay is a critical response to the article by mernissi fatema titled size six. Mernissi ultimately argues that the freedom from these controlling traditions and expectations of women is the only way for the arab world to develop. Fatema mernissi quotes showing of 53 nature is womans best friend, she yasmina often said. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes. Fatema mernissi moroccan sociologist and writer britannica. Fatema mernissis most popular book is dreams of trespass. A feminist interpretation of womens rights in islam, translated by mary jo lakeland new york. The missiological implications of the islamic feminism of. Morocco merger control lexispsl, practical guidance for. Books by fatema mernissi author of dreams of trespass.
Fatima mernissi 1940 also transliterated as fatema mernissi moroccan nonfiction writer, memoirist, and editor. Fatima mernissi primary author only author division. Mernissi explains in her book that early muslim scholars portrayed women as aggressive hunters who forced men, reduced to weak hunted victims, to control women by imposing requirements such as veiling, which confined women to the private space. Fatema mernissi has 33 books on goodreads with 24239 ratings. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The following entry presents an overview of mernissis career through 2001. Every once in a while, a childhood memoir effortlessly transports us to another world in which we dwell happily for the duration of the book. Fatima was a sociologist who examined the relationship between women and the quran, women and men, and women and the caliphate, subjecting each to meticulous. Although her parents had a monogamous marriage, she grew up living in. Phenomenal woman, still i rise, the road not taken, if you forget me, dreams. Recovering the stories of fifteen islamic queens, this remarkable exploration tells how they ascended the throne, how they governed and exercised their power, and how their forgotten reigns influence the ways in which politics is. Patriarchal dominance and misinterpretation of sacred texts in islamic countries.