by José María Cossío · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788467025392
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«El Harén en Occidente» is the essay by Fatema Mernissi, published by Booket in 2013 in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The author surveys the literary and pictorial myths of the Muslim world to analyse how the male imagination has represented women. She maintains that Muslim artists conceived women as active and determined, and that even today the self-assured and independent woman is valued, in contrast to a Western gaze that has turned the harem into an erotic myth.
The volume belongs to Booket's Divulgación collection. The edition was translated by Inés Belaustegui Trías.
It will interest those who want a critical, accessible and well-documented view of stereotypes of women in Muslim and Western culture.
Fatema Mernissi was a Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
