Moroccan women, activists, and gender politics : an institutional analysis / Eve Sandberg and Kenza Aqertit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sandberg, Eve, author.

Contributor:

Aqertit, Kenza.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Morocco--Social conditions.

Women.

Sex discrimination.

Women (Islamic law).

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women political activists.

Morocco.

Social conditions.

Women political activists--Morocco.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Morocco.

Women (Islamic law)--Morocco.

Sex discrimination--Morocco.

Physical Description:

xii, 171 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2014.

Summary:

Eve Sandberg and Kenza Aqertit analyze how dedicated, smart, and politically effective Moroccan women worked together since Morocco's independence to alter their country's entrenched gender institution of distinctive make and female obligations and practice. In telling the story of these Moroccan gender activists, Sandberg and Aqertit's work is of interest to Middle East and North Africa (MENA) specialists, to feminist and gender researchers, and to institutionalist scholars. Their work operationalizes and offers a template for studying change in a national gender institution that can be adopted by practitioners and scholars in other national circumstances. Book jacket.

Contents:

Institutional theories, feminist theories, and Moroccan women activists

Creating Morocco's post-independence gender institution

The agency of Moroccan women

Changing rules and paths within institutions within institutions and the creation of discursive initiatives to alter Morocco's gender discourses

Resources

The sum is greater than its parts

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.

ISBN:

9780739182093

0739182099

OCLC:

881208609