Minority rights, feminism and international law : voices of Amazigh women in Morocco / Silvia Gagliardi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gagliardi, Silvia, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, Berber--Morocco--Social conditions.

Women, Berber.

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

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Feminism.

Social conditions.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

xi, 189 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

"Investigating minority and indigenous women's rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law. Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly 'emancipatory' power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are sites of contestation for different groups that use them to assert their agency in society. More specifically, it shows how the very conditions that make minority and indigenous women instrumental to the preservation of their culture may condemn them to a position of subalternity. In response, and engaging the notion and meaning of Islamic feminism, the book proposes that feminism should be interpreted and contextualised locally in order to be effective and inclusive, and so in order for the human rights project to fully realise its potential to empower the marginalised and make space for their voices to be heard. Providing a detailed, empirically-based, analysis of rights in action, this book will be of relevance to scholars, students and practitioners in human rights policy and practice, in international law, minorities' and indigenous peoples' rights, gender studies, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Theoretical framework

The politics of rights : Morocco's human rights structure

Shaping narratives in Moroccan society

Mapping over the Amazigh body

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - National University of Ireland, Galway, 2018) issued under title: When the 'minority' speaks : voices of Amazigh women in Morocco.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Gagliardi, Silvia, Minority rights, feminism and international law

ISBN:

9780367902766

0367902761

OCLC:

1138997039

Publisher Number:

99988375789