Resumen de Manifestation of empowerment in Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
This paper analyzes the concept of empowerment and its manifestation in Fatima Mernissi’s memoir (1994) Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Mernissi describes her early childhood as a girl growing up in the harem in Fez, Morocco in the 1940s. Despite the male-dominated and patriarchal mentality of that time period, women in the harem find their own ways to be empowered and transmit this empowerment to their daughters and other women. They used, for example, storytelling, theater, and music as a means of empowerment to claim their fight against patriarchy which later resulted in establishing formal education for girls and the pursuit of their dreams beyond the harem walls.
