Civil Society, Women's Movement and the Moroccan State

This book aims generally to address the specificity of Moroccan civil society and assess its journey to contribute and deepen the political liberalization Morocco has engaged in since the early 1990s. Specifically, it seeks to assess the role of women s movement organizations, as part of this nascent Moroccan civil society, to undermine through their activism state s patriarchal laws in the light of a general activism that targets the change of laws and practices, and establishment of equality. Actually, the importance of this study resides in the fact that it sheds light on another understanding of the direction of civil society activism and struggles in autocratic states. It also helps in a better understanding of state s politics and strategies of government in Morocco.

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Mohammed Yachoulti graduated from Mohammed Ben Abdellah University -Fez, Morocco, with a BA in English Literature, an MA in Gender Studies and a PhD in Linguistics & Gender Studies. Currently,he is a teacher of English affiliated to the Ministry of Education. He is interested Gender and Politics, Social Movements Studies & General Linguistics.