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Author Sadiqi, Fatima, author.

Title Women, gender, and language in Morocco / by Fatima Sadiqi
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 336 pages)
Series Woman and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world, 1570-7628 ; v. 1
Women and gender, the Middle East and the Islamic world ; v. 1.
Contents Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 Gender and Language in Morocco: Theoretical and Political Issues -- Ch. 2 Grammatical, Semantic, and Pragmatic Androcentricity in Moroccan Languages -- Ch. 3 Social Differences -- Ch. 4 Contextual Differences -- Ch. 5 Differences Within the Self
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-332) and index
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Subject Arabic language -- Sex differences -- Morocco
Berber languages -- Sex differences -- Morocco
Women -- Language.
Language and culture -- Morocco
Sexism in language -- Morocco
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
Arabic language -- Sex differences
Language and culture
Sexism in language
Women -- Language
Sprache
Geschlechterforschung
Frau
Vrouwen.
Sekseverschillen.
Macht.
Taal.
Morocco
Marokkanisch-Arabisch.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004128538
9004128530
1423755448
9781423755449