Women, Gender and Language in Morocco

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-04-12853-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 338 Seiten, Format (B × H): 240 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sadiqi, Fatima

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Fatima Sadiqi, Ph.D. (1982) in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Essex, is a Senior Professor of Linguistics at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes. She has published extensively on Moroccan languages including Grammaire du Berbère (l'Harmattan, 1997)