Zakia Salime
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816651337
- eISBN:
- 9781452946085
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816651337.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold sharia as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to ...
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There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold sharia as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend sharia law. This book shows how the interactions of these movements over the past two decades have transformed the debates, the organization, and the strategies of each other. This book looks at three key movement moments: the 1992 feminist One Million Signature Campaign, the 2000 Islamist mass rally opposing the reform of family law, and the 2003 Casablanca attacks by a group of Islamist radicals. At the core of these moments are disputes over legitimacy, national identity, gender representations, and political negotiations for shaping state gender policies. Located at the intersection of feminism and Islam, these conflicts have led to the Islamization of feminists on the one hand and the feminization of Islamists on the other. Documenting the synergistic relationship between these movements, this text reveals how the boundaries of feminism and Islamism have been radically reconfigured. It offers a conceptual framework for studying social movements, one that allows us to understand how Islamic feminism is influencing global debates on human rights.Less
There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold sharia as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend sharia law. This book shows how the interactions of these movements over the past two decades have transformed the debates, the organization, and the strategies of each other. This book looks at three key movement moments: the 1992 feminist One Million Signature Campaign, the 2000 Islamist mass rally opposing the reform of family law, and the 2003 Casablanca attacks by a group of Islamist radicals. At the core of these moments are disputes over legitimacy, national identity, gender representations, and political negotiations for shaping state gender policies. Located at the intersection of feminism and Islam, these conflicts have led to the Islamization of feminists on the one hand and the feminization of Islamists on the other. Documenting the synergistic relationship between these movements, this text reveals how the boundaries of feminism and Islamism have been radically reconfigured. It offers a conceptual framework for studying social movements, one that allows us to understand how Islamic feminism is influencing global debates on human rights.
