Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Morocco’s New Voices: Women Writers and the Socio-Political and Cultural Landscape 18
6. 2. Mernissi and Scheherazade in Dialogue: Rereading and Acts of Subversion 37
7. 3. The Myth of the Silent Woman 59
8. 4. Transgressive Narratives 80
9. 5. A Prison Narrative: Female Memory and a Woman Called ‘Rachid’ 105
10. 6. The Female Body and the Body Politic: Harem and Hammam 125
11. 7. Women and the City 150
12. 8. Scheherazade’s (Moroccan) Sisters: The Poetics of Identity and Democracy 169
13. Conclusion 194
14. Notes 199
15. Bibliography 241
16. Index 257