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Abstract / Summary

Among various important efforts to address women’s issues in Morocco, a particular set of individuals and associations have formed around two specific goals: reforming the Moroccan Family Code and raising awareness of women’s rights. Evrard chronicles the history of the women’s rights movement, exploring the organizational structure, activities, and motivations with specific attention to questions of legal reform and family law. Employing ethnographic scrutiny, Evrard presents the stories of the individual women behind the movement and the challenges they faced. Given the vast reform of the Moroccan Family Code in 2004, and the emphasis on the role of women across the Middle East and North Africa today, this book makes a timely argument for the analysis of women’s rights as both global and local in origin, evolution, and application.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Amy Evrard

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2014 Syracuse University

Content Type

Book

Duration

0 sec

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Page Count

312

Publication Year

2014

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Place Published / Released

Syracuse, NY

Subject

Global Issues, World History, Women and Social Movements, Social Sciences, History, Individual and Groups Rights, Political and Social Movements, Revolution and Protest context, Women's rights, Women, Social movements, Women's movement, Anthropology, History, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos, Marruecos, Marrocos, Morocco, Moroccans, 21st Century in World History (2001– ), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Series / Program

Gender and Globalization

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Movimientos Políticos y Sociales, Movimentos Sociais e Políticos, Marruecos, Marrocos