Feminism Thounghts in dreams of trespass: tales of a harem girlhood by Fatima Mernissi

This research is aimed at analyzing a literary work which is written by woman writer who has written about woman's experiences. It is novel Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatima Mernissi as the object of the research. This novel is memoir about Fatima Mernissi's childhood in domestic harem in Fez in the late 1940s recounts the life experiences of her female relatives and her own reactions to the world around her. The novel demystifies the harem and puts a face on Arab Muslim women in a personal and highly entertaining manner, exploring the nature of women's power, the value of oral tradition and the absolute necessity of dreams and celebrations. Within the novel described how the culture of the harem grows and develops. Harem culture is considered as the causing of a patriarchal system where women are restricted to do activities outside and they are required to follow the rules. Obviously it is very detrimental for women including family of Fatima Mernissi. However, there are some female characters who do not keep silent, in fact they protest because they have been oppressed. They do not perform movements around environment, but only within the home. They try to convey some ideas of feminism thoughts to Fatima Mernissi with different manner. For instance, Mernissi's mother gives the storytelling with the moral message inside, her grandmother gives some advices and experiences and her aunt and cousin who hold a theater show about the great women that inspire many women in the harem to get the equality and the true of freedom. Thus, it can be concluded that gender equality and freedom are the feminism thoughts that appear through some female characters. Those are shaped by the various ways, such as by the storytelling, education and theater