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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (3): 48–70.
Published: 01 November 2006
...Doris H. Gray Women in Morocco and second-generation women of Moroccan origin in France share significant similarities concerning major life issues such as their conception of Islam, legal changes affecting women on both sides of the Mediterranean, and personal and professional issues. A hard...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 3–23.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Peter Drucker Abstract The project of the French Alliance Israélite Universelle (AIU) in Morocco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—to win social and political equality for Jews through European enlightenment—was intertwined with the French imperial project. Moroccan Jewish women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 109–111.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Anna Cavness The Myth of the Silent Woman: Moroccan Women Writers , Diaconoff Suellen . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2009 . 269 pages. ISBN 978-1-4426-4005-4 . Copyright © 2011 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2011...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 99–101.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Alessandra L. González I would recommend this book for classroom instruction because of the general readability of salient issues of concern to scholars of Middle East women’s studies, anthropologists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Jansen convincingly portrays Moroccan fashion...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 10–36.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Bettina Dennerlein This paper focuses on competing appropriations of international women’s rights standards in the framework of the Moroccan Equity and Reconciliation Commission (ERC) and its follow-up projects. I argue that, even if the ERC’s gender approach has been introduced as part...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 485–491.
Published: 01 November 2021
... ” (“The Women’s Press and the Foundation of a New Discourse about Women”). In Mubādarāt nisāʾiyya (Women’s Initiatives) , edited by Belarbi Aicha , 51 – 69 . Casablanca : Le Fennec . Baker Alison . 1998 . Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women . Albany : State University...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2023) 19 (2): 185–208.
Published: 01 July 2023
... for the emancipation of Moroccan women might reassert royal hegemony over the anticolonial liberation struggle. The project to create a new Moroccan woman self-consciously took place amid dramatic transformations across the Arab world. The legendary Algerian resistance fighters Djamila Bouazza and Djamila Bouhired...
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in Decolonizing the Moroccan Woman: Female Liberation and National Sovereignty in the Modern Maghrib
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Published: 01 July 2023
Figure 1. Cover page of al-Manar , February 1, 1957. The lead story is titled “Training Young Moroccan Women.”
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 330–343.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Monica Lindsay-Perez Abstract Between 1931 and 1936 the democratic Spanish government overthrew the monarchy and established the Second Spanish Republic. It was a volatile period for Spanish-Moroccan relations. Fascists were in favor of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, whereas Republicans were...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 179–198.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Ariel M. Sheetrit Abstract This article presents an analysis of the Moroccan writer Leila Abouzeid’s Rujuʿ ila al-tufula ( 1993 ; Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman , 1998) through the prism of relational theories of autobiography. It exposes narrative strategies of voice...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2012) 8 (1): 37–62.
Published: 01 March 2012
...Susan Slyomovics Fatna El Bouih stands as a well-known Moroccan activist whose life embraces a remarkable trajectory and a wide array of roles: former political prisoner, writer, academically trained sociologist, witness, individual claimant for truth commission reparations, and, most recently...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 193–212.
Published: 01 July 2018
...Ghada Mourad Abstract This article examines how the Moroccan Francophone writer Mohamed Leftah negotiates a decolonized modernity in his novel Le dernier combat du Captain Niʿmat (2011). This understanding of decolonization is based on Abdelkebir Khatibi’s pensée-autre , a mode of thinking...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2021
...Naïma Hachad Abstract In Bullets and Bullets Revisited (2009–14) the Moroccan-born artist Lalla Essaydi invites the onlooker to reflect on the power dynamics of image production and consumption in a globalizing visual culture. As in the artist’s previous series, the photographs present Moroccan...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575483.
Published: 10 January 2025
...Wael J. Salam Abstract This article explores the thematic and aesthetic depictions of the colonized in Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account (2014) by extending the postcolonial theory of the subaltern. This Moroccan American novel reconstructs the colonial history of the sixteenth-century Spanish...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 86–114.
Published: 01 July 2006
...Fatima Sadiqi; Moha Ennaji The Moroccan feminist movement has greatly feminized and democratized the public sphere in this country. An example of such a feminization is the recent 2004 Family Law reforms, which constitute the culmination of a long trajectory during which decisionmakers, political...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (1): 122–125.
Published: 01 March 2016
... Moroccan feminist movement. After the 20 February Movement (the Moroccan version of the Arab Spring) appeared, these NGOs considerably increased in number and steadily developed a public voice with a clear mission. Although they all promote the Amazigh language and culture, Amazigh feminist NGOs...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11412182.
Published: 19 September 2024
... made her identity as a woman relevant. She frequently discusses the gendered barriers to success for female rappers, who still make up a very small proportion of the Moroccan rap industry. For example, she told Vogue Arabia in 2022 that even after collaborating with many popular male rappers who have...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (1): 126–129.
Published: 01 March 2006
... scholarship on the topic for both specialists and
nonspecialists. She asserts the necessity of a constructivist and anti-
essentialist approach to gender that situates actors in specific cultural
contexts. She then proceeds to delineate those contexts for Moroccan
women, recounting the history...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (2): 294–303.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Ginger Feather References Bordat Stephanie Willman , and Kouzzi Saida . 2010 . “ Legal Empowerment of Unwed Mothers: Experiences of Moroccan NGOs .” Legal Empowerment: Practitioners’ Perspectives . International Development Law Organization . mrawomen.ma/wp-content/uploads/doc...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (1): 130–133.
Published: 01 March 2013
... by the makhzen (Moroccan state ap-
paratus) and hostile to women’s rights” (5), instead dividing ulema into
independent and state-affiliated groups. The independent ulema -par
ticipated in the formation of Islamist parties which Salime introduces.
After a brief discussion of Arabization in Morocco and its...
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