The Three Women of Fes

Sara Hadaoui

Abstract: This article is on two texts: Dreams of Trespass by Fatema Mernissi, The Sand Child by Tahar Ben Jelloun, and the TV series The Clone by the script writer Gl?ria Perez dealing with themes of colonialism in Morocco and its effect on people, especially women. it talks about slavery and the Harem culture and the traditional Moroccan household, examining themes of witchcraft and western men fetishizing women. the aim of this research is to show the effect of the violence implied by the colonizer on people and the women's rights and slaves rights statue in a post-colonial morocco to shed light on the reality of women conditions in that period.

Keywords: colonialism, Morocco, Fes, Fez, Dreams of Trespass, Fatema Mernissi, The Sand Child, Tahar Ben Jellou, O Clone, slavery, women, feminism, gender troubles, gender, violence, magic, harem, colonize