Les Femmes Du Maroc

Les Femmes Du Maroc
Author: Lalla Essaydi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2009-10-16
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Alluring and rich, Lalla Essaydi's work plays with the representation of Islam and the Orient in the West. Her work reaches far beyond Islamic culture to invoke the Western fascination with the veil and the harem as expressed in 19th-century Orientalist painting which suggested exoticism, fantasy and mysticism were abound in Arab culture. In an act of reclamation, Essayadi re-uses this visual language - the exquisite architecture, the interior decor, the clothing - to turn both the visualisation of women and of Islam in a different direction.

Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie

Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie
Author: Yvette Rocheron
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2004
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9783906768311

"This volume consists of selected papers from a conference organised under the aegis of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France at the University of Leicester in September 2000"--P. [9].

Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco

Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco
Author: James N. Sater
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2007-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134126468

This book is concerned with political change in Morocco since 1990, with particular emphasis on civil society, human rights and reform.

Reforming Family Law

Reforming Family Law
Author: Dörthe Engelcke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110849661X

Implementation of Islamic family law varies widely across North Africa and the Middle East, here Dörthe Engelcke explores the reasons for this.

Three Faces of Beauty

Three Faces of Beauty
Author: Susan Ossman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2002-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780822328964

DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div

Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age

Gender and Citizenship in the Global Age
Author: Amri, Laroussi
Publisher: CODESRIA
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 2869785895

One of the major issues this book examines is what the African experience and identity have contributed to the debate on citizenship in the era of globalisation. The volume presents case studies of different African contexts, illustrating the gendered aspects of citizenship as experienced by African men and women. Citizenship carries manifold gendered aspects and given the distinct gender roles and responsibilities, globalisation affects citizenship in different ways. It further examines new forms of citizenship emerging from the current era dominated by a neoliberal focus. The book is not exclusive in terms of theorisation but its focus on African contexts, with an in-depth analysis taking into consideration local culture and practices and their implications for citizenship, provides a good foundation for further scholarly work on gender and citizenship in Africa.

Revisionary Narratives

Revisionary Narratives
Author: Naïma Hachad
Publisher: Contemporary French and Franco
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1789620228

Revisionary Narratives examines the historical and formal evolutions of Moroccan women's auto/biography and testimony. Considering works in Arabic, Moroccan Darija, French, and English in the fields of prison narratives, visual arts, theater, and digital media, the book highlights strategies women use to relate their experiences of political violence, migration, displacement, and globalization while also decentering patriarchal and (neo)imperial norms and practices.

Women's Movements and Countermovements

Women's Movements and Countermovements
Author: Claudia Derichs
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2014-09-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1443868027

The relationship between social movements and their countermovements is an underrepresented research topic, given the bulk of social movement studies that have been published to date. Moreover, empirical research on this topic primarily covers certain geographic areas of the world, specifically what is commonly called the “global North”. The mobilization of religious and women’s movements against social change, which strive for a preservation of the status quo and can be held responsible for a delayed expansion of reform-oriented interest articulation, is a rare topic of social movement literature, too. The authors of this volume address the issue of women’s movements and countermovements in countries of Southeast Asia and the North African part of the MENA region. They arrive at interesting constellations of coalition and competition between state and non-state actors, and religious and secular movements, as well as within women’s movements. Covering case studies from Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco and Tunisia, the pattern of Islamist movements countering the goals of (Muslim) women’s movements emerges as dominant.

What Moroccan Cinema?

What Moroccan Cinema?
Author: Sandra Gayle Carter
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2009-08-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0739131877

From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the country's independence in 1956. In What Moroccan Cinema? A Historical and Critical Study, 1956-2006, Sandra Gayle Carter chronicles the changes in Moroccan laws, institutions, ancillary influences, individuals active in the field, representative films, and film culture during this fifty-year span. Focusing on Moroccan history and institutions relative to the cinema industry such as television, newspaper criticism, and Berber videomaking, What Moroccan Cinema? is an intriguing study of the ways in which three historical periods shaped the Moroccan cinema industry. Carter provides an insightful and thorough treatment of the cinema institution, discussing exhibition and distribution, censorship, and cinema clubs and caravans. Carter grounds her analysis by exploring representative films of each respective era. The groundbreaking analysis offered in What Moroccan Cinema? will prove especially valuable to those in film and Middle Eastern studies.

Through a Local Prism

Through a Local Prism
Author: Loubna H. Skalli
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739111949

In Through a Local Prism, Loubna H. Skalli explores the forces of global cosmopolitanism, European and American, as they collide with local definitions of self, gender, and community in the Arab and Muslim culture. Since the late 1980s, Morocco, a postcolonial Muslim country, has faced dramatic political, economic, and socio-cultural changes. Utilizing Moroccan women's magazines, Skalli explores the tensions and intersections between global forces and local traditions with close attention to their impact on gender definitions among Arab Muslims. Drawing on communication, media, and cultural theories, Skalli's research redefines culture, gender, and national identity in the context of the globalized world. The focus on the Middle East makes this book of great interest to scholars and students of cultural studies, communications, and women's studies. Book jacket.