There are two major women's movements in Morocco: the Islamists
who hold shari'a as the platform for building a culture of women's
rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations' framework to
amend shari'a law. "Between Feminism and Islam" shows how the
interactions of these movements over the past two decades have
transformed the debates, the organization, and the strategies of
each other.
In "Between Feminism and Islam," Zakia Salime looks at three key
movement moments: the 1992 feminist One Million Signature Campaign,
the 2000 Islamist mass rally opposing the reform of family law, and
the 2003 Casablanca attacks by a group of Islamist radicals. At the
core of these moments are disputes over legitimacy, national
identity, gender representations, and political negotiations for
shaping state gender policies. Located at the intersection of
feminism and Islam, these conflicts have led to the Islamization of
feminists on the one hand and the feminization of Islamists on the
other.
Documenting the synergistic relationship between these
movements, Salime reveals how the boundaries of feminism and
Islamism have been radically reconfigured. She offers a new
conceptual framework for studying social movements, one that allows
us to understand how Islamic feminism is influencing global debates
on human rights.
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