Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

328 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant projections of their own wishes a...

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