Moroccan Women''s Rights Movement

Informationen zum Autor Amy Young Evrard is associate professor of anthropology at Gettysburg College! USA. She has written several articles on women's rights in Morocco and gender in the Middle East. Klappentext Among various important efforts to address women's issues in Morocco, a particular set of individuals and associations have formed around two specific goals: reforming the Moroccan Family Code and raising awareness of women's rights. Evrard chronicles the history of the women's rights movement, exploring the organisational structure, activities, and motivations with specific attention to questions of legal reform and family law. Zusammenfassung This ethnography of the Moroccan womens rights movement describes the history and activists of the Moroccan womens rights movement through the development and use of three frames: equality! womens human rights! and the harmonious family.

About the author

Amy Young Evrard is associate professor of anthropology at Gettysburg College. She has written several articles on women's rights in Morocco and gender in the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Amy Evrard, Amy Young Evrard
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2014
• EAN: 9780815633501
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3350-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Gender and Globalization; Gender and Globalization
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories