Women, Gender and Language in Morocco

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Название:Women, Gender and Language in Morocco (Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World, 1) (Women and Gender, 1)

Автор: Fatima Sadiqi

Издательство: Brill Academic Publishers

ISBN: 9004128530

Год: 2002

Страниц: 354

Язык:Английский

Формат: PDF

Размер: 1.05 MB

This volume deals with the complex but poorly understood relationship between women, gender, and language in Morocco, a Muslim, multilingual, multicultural, and developing country. The hypothesis on which the book is based is that an understanding of gender perception and women's agency can be achieved only by taking into account the structure of power in a specific culture and that language is an important component of this power. In Moroccan culture, history, geography, Islam, orality, multilingualism, social organization, economic status, and political system constitute the superstructures of power within which factors such as social differences, contextual differences, and identity differences interact in the daily linguistic performances of gender. Moroccan women are far from constituting a homogeneous group, consequently the choices available to them vary in nature and empowering capacity, thus ‘widening’ the spectrum of gender beyond cultural limits.