عنوان

Moroccan Feminists: The Innovators and Drivers behind Progressive Legal Reform: Successes, Setbacks, and Future Prioritiess

Number

TL49605

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Moroccan Feminists: The Innovators and Drivers behind Progressive Legal Reform: Successes, Setbacks, and Future Prioritiess

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ginger R. Feather

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Kennedy, John J.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Kansas

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

110

Text of Note

Committee members: Avdan, Nazli; Joslyn, Mark; Mack, Beverly; Slaoui, Souad

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-34330-4

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

University of Kansas

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

This project evaluates the effect of feminist activism to challenge discriminatory articles in the 2004 Family Law and 2003 Penal Code. The Moroccan women's movement has been divided between competing feminist and anti-feminist coalitions regarding how best to promote gender equality and women's rights in Moroccan society. Much of the friction between these coalitions can be explained by Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), which delineates between coalitions based on conflicting core beliefs, policy core beliefs, and secondary beliefs. Whereas the feminists embrace the UN human rights discourse and concentrate on breaking down patriarchal hierarchies and male privilege, anti-feminists subscribe to complementary gender roles and the preeminence of religious legal references. This polarization limits the potential of feminist associations to effectively lobby the government for progressive legislative reforms. This project identifies two possible solutions to this dilemma. First, coalitions can inform and be informed by each other leading to policy-oriented learning. Second, the late Moroccan feminist scholar Fatima Mernissi and subsequent Islamic exegetes propose a potential synthesis of the dominant debates, an emancipatory progressive Muslim feminist discourse with an Islamic reference.

Womens studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Political science; Public policy

Subject Term

Social sciences;Discrimination;Feminist;Morocco;Rights;VAW;Women's

Yu, Sicong

Kennedy, John J.

Subdivision

Political Science

University of Kansas

Call Number

1964384611; 10283068

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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