Women, Gender and Language in Morocco
Biographical note
Fatima Sadiqi, Ph.D. (1982) in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Essex, is a Senior Professor of Linguistics at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes. She has published extensively on Moroccan languages including Grammaire du Berbère (l'Harmattan, 1997)
Readership
All those interested in women and gender studies, feminisms, Arab-Muslim culture, Middle Eastern studies, Moroccan linguistics, sociolinguistics, feminist linguistics, language ideology and orality.
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The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia and contributes on current debates on gender and Islam.
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This volume is the first to bring together analysis of contemporary female religious leadership in ideologically-diverse Muslim communities in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, with chapters discussing the emergence, consolidation, and impact of female Islamic authority.
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This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship. It draws on both early and contemporary writings of Arab women to illuminate the traditional and evolving nature of mother-daughter relationships in Arab families and how these ...
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This book offers a thorough and critical analysis of the work of one of the major figures in “Islamic feminism,” Fatima Mernissi. This work traces Mernissi’s intellectual trajectory from “secular” to “Islamic feminism” in order to engage in the theorization of this emerging feminism.
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Drawing on Marxist-feminist theory, this book examines women’s resistance to, and subversion of, patriarchal authority, as respresented in Kuwaiti women’s fiction. It demonstrates that Kuwaiti/Arabian Gulf women are not as submissive as commonly (mis)represented in academia and the media.
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In the framework of a romantic tale, Faizunnesa recorded how women were always treated as agents of chaos and desire, and how their resisting voices were always silenced in a religiously motivated society. This book examines her text as a critique of male dominance in the Muslim society of ...
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This book tells a different story about water. Against the backdrop of the end of the Ottoman Empire, Mandate period, the founding of Israel, the Arab-Israeli wars and Palestinian uprisings, old Palestinian women recount life before and after piped water.
€127.00$165.00
This innovative anthropological study, based on biographic narratives recorded during extensive field-research in Darfur, Sudan (1990-95) provides a unique understanding of how, in daily life, working women of different classes negotiate their identities in the context of an Islamist regime.
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Performing Islam focuses on a wide spectrum of ritual activities in Iran today as a key for elucidating social, cultural and political processes, but in particular the values and beliefs underpinning gender constructions in a rapidly changing complex society.
€116.00$150.00
This anthropological monograph provides fascinating insights into the life world of highly educated Jordanian women in their early twenties; it is a sensitive account of their powerful contributions to a rapidly changing society as well as of the problems they often face.
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