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MOROCCAN FEMINIST DISCOURSES
By Fatima Sadiqi
Moroccan Feminist
Discourses book is both scholarly and personal. It is scholarly because it
addresses and assesses the current Moroccan feminist discourses, a topic the
author has been involved with for almost three decades, and it is personal
because it brings along her Berber identity and seeks to reposition it
vis-à-vis these feminist discourses. Revisiting the Moroccan feminist
discourses in the aftermath of the uprisings in the region which, among other
things, brought about the spectacular change in the political status of Berber
from an indigenous centuries-long marginalized language to an 'official
language' of Morocco came with serious challenges to the feminist discourses by
highlighting the stark absence of Berber, a women-related language, in these
discourses. The two recognized types of feminist discourse, the secular and
Islamic ones, are not only divergent but suffer from a shortage in scope and
discard the rich heritage, knowledge, and art that Berber women bring along to
the Moroccan feminist discourses.
Author
Fatima Sadiqi is Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies and Founder of the
Center for Studies and Research on Women at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah
University, Morocco. She is the author of Women, Gender, and Language in
Morocco and the editor of Women and Knowledge in the Mediterranean, Women
in the Middle East and North Africa: Agents of Change, and Women Writing
Africa.
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