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A Street in Marrakech: A Personal View of Urban Women in Morocco

by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea · 1975

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This is a personal account of an American woman and her family's unpredictable journey between the public and private worlds of Marrakech and of a struggle that finally led the author to be accepted by her female Moroccan neighbors.

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medium · 382 pages

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