Harem: The World Behind the Veil

This study considers the everyday lives of odalisques, the harem as the Moslem equivalent of purdah and male-dominated harem life as symbolic of the collective unconscious. ``Ultimately, the text is a choppy amalgam of history, reminiscence, conjecture and intermittently overblown writing,'' said PW . ``Much more evocative are the 125 photographs and reproductions of art works included here.'' (Mar.)