The renowned Moroccan sociologist and author Fatima Mernissi,who has died aged 75, was an important and influential figure in Arab Islamic feminism.
Fatima was born and raised in Fez in a harem that belonged to her affluent paternal grandmother and comprised two extended families and various female kin and servants. In her memoir Dreams of Trespass (1994), or she describes how the harem’s hudud (“sacred frontier” in Arabic),which separated women from the external world, came to represent man-made and oppressive borders.
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Source: theguardian.com