Moroccan Women, Activists, and Gender Politics - An Institutional Analysis

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.

List of contents

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 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

About the author

Eve Sandberg is chair of the Politics Department at Oberlin College.

Kenza Aqertit is National Democratic Institute (NDI)-Nepal country director.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kenza Aqertit, Aqertit Kenza, Sandberg, Eve Sandberg, Eve Aqertit Sandberg, Sandberg Eve
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2017
• EAN: 9781498501705
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0170-5
• No. of pages: 186
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Morocco, Social discrimination & inequality, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies: women, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Central / national / federal government policies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Central government policies, Social discrimination and social justice, Advocacy;Feminism;Gender Studies;Islam;Morocco