...Stephanie Willman Bordat; Susan Schaefer Davis; Saida Kouzzi Numerous recent initiatives in Morocco aim to promote women’s empowerment in the country’s current climate of legal reform, national and international development, and rising Islamism. The authors employ a holistic definition...

... laboring experiences? How might a focus on subjectivity help us to better account for the forms of agency sex workers enact, and their understandings of their transnational circumstances? Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco...

...I. Okwuje States and Women’s Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco , Charrad Mounira M. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2001 . xviii + 341 pp. Bibliography, index. $55.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-520-07323-1 ; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0-520-22576-7...

... in the public sphere, changing the terms of participation in this sphere, and making women and gender issues a matter of national dialogue and contention for the first time in Morocco’s history. Fatima Sadiqi holds a PhD in theoretical lingusitics and is currently a senior professor of linguistics...

...Katelyn Zeser [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2024 THIRD SPACE With Love, from Your Sister Khtek s Hip-Hop Queendom and Women s Revolutionary Music in Morocco and Beyond KATELYN ZESER I n 2019 a friend in Rabat showed me...

...Katja Žvan Elliott Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood: The Negated Sex . Osire Glacier . Cham : Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 . ix + 193 pages. isbn 9783319532851. Copyright © 2019 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2019 Osire...

...Susan MacDougall Modernizing Patriarchy: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Morocco . Elliott Katja Zvan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2015 . 233 pages. isbn 9781477302446 Copyright © 2016 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2016 Despite...

..., maker of museum-based memorials at Derb Moulay Cherif, once Casablanca’s torture center during the country’s colonial and post-independence era regimes. The museum project also focuses on Morocco’s largest urban agglomeration, Casablanca, and targets a sector of the city and its inhabitants’ rights...

...Jessica Marie Newman Abstract This article interrogates how employees at single-mother associations in Morocco construct the mère célibataire (single mother) as an archetypal, aspirational figure. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork (2013–15), this article traces how counselors work...

.../Stephanie___Saida_s_IDLO_paper_for_Morocco__April_2010.pdf . Dwyer Kayla . 2016 . “ Prostitution in Morocco? Shocked! Shocked! ” Newsweek , February 15 . www.newsweek.com/prostitution-morocco-sex-workers-426189 . El Masaiti Amira . 2017 . “ Minister of Family Wants Paternity DNA Test, Still Needs Courses in Family Law...

...Dongxin Zou Abstract Sent by the Chinese government on medical missions, Chinese female ob-gyns have served in rural and small-town public hospitals in Algeria and Morocco for more than fifty years. Yet little is known about the medical encounters or how the ob-gyns perceived patients...

...Fayrouz Yousfi The women I met that day in front of Soprofel’s office, desperately waiting for the company’s representatives to put them back to work or give them their right to fair compensation, are the backbone of Morocco’s economic growth; their cheap labor is one of the country’s main...

...Katja Žvan Elliott This article examines the rarely talked about subtleties of Moroccan reform in the realm of women’s rights and its inadequate fulfillment of obligations to international human rights standards. The Preamble to Morocco’s post-Arab Spring 2011 constitution follows the example...

... Asia and Eastern Europe and to rethink their methodologies by pursuing the many gaps in what we know about women and Islamic cultures. Women, Gender, and Language in Morocco Fatima Sadiqi. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2003. ISBN 90-04-12853-0. 336 pages...

...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...

... in literature, political science, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, and gender studies. Th e Performance of Human Rights in Morocco Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Pp. 271. ISBN 0812238583...

...Susan Slyomovics Susan Slyomovics is the Geneviève McMillan-Reba Stewart Professor of the Study of Women in the Developing World and Professor of Anthropology at MIT. She is the author of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco (2005). Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East...

...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...

..., Morocco, and Algeria. Analysis of Islamic jurisprudence and opinions, court decisions, and state laws since 1999 shows that the crisis of abandoned children combined with the biological truth revealed by DNA testing have helped produce a paradigm shift. Islamic legal opinions now argue for the need...