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Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics : An Institutional Analysis.

Sandberg, Eve.

Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics : An Institutional Analysis. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (189 pages)

Moroccan Women, Activists And Gender Politics -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Institutional Theories, Feminist Theories, and Moroccan Women Activists -- Chapter 2 Creating Morocco's Post-Independence Gender Institution -- Chapter 3 The Agency of Moroccan Women -- Chapter 4 Changing Rules and Paths within Institutions and the Creation of Discursive Initiatives to Alter Morocco's Gender Discourses -- Chapter 5 Resources -- Chapter 6 The Sum is Greater Than Its Parts -- Chapter 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.

This book explores, through a feminist and institutionalist approach, how Moroccan women activists altered their national gender institution to improve the lives of all Moroccan women. The authors offer a template for studying change in national gender institutions that can be adopted by practitioners and scholars in other settings.

9780739182109


Women--Morocco--Social conditions.
Women political activists--Morocco.
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--Morocco.
Women (Islamic law)--Morocco.
Sex discrimination--Morocco.


Electronic books.

HQ1791.S35 2014

305.420964

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