the politics of women's rights in Morocco
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Elliott, Katja Zvan
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- NO 1P 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, mensenrechten, patriarchaat, huwelijken, recht, gezinnen, islam, Marokko, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Morocco is hailed by academics and international NGO workers as a trailblazer in women’s rights and legal reforms. Elliott examines why women’s rights advances are lauded in Morocco in theory but are not recognized in reality, despite the efforts of both Islamist and secular feminists. In Morocco, female literacy rates remain among the lowest in the region: many women are victims of gender-based violence and girls as young as twelve are still engaged to adult men. The author looks at the life of Moroccan Muslim women who, though often young and educated, find it difficult to lead a dignified life in a country where they are expected to have only one destiny: that of wife and mother.