Dynamique de genre au Maroc: entre orientations universelles et agencements politiques religieuses

Abstract

This article focuses on the arrangements and interactions between political and social positions of universal standards and those with a conservative character referring to religion. In other words, our concern is to dwell on the manifestation of impact, on the dynamics of gender in Morocco, the confrontation between politico-social institutions referring to religion and those believing in universal principles. Proponents of the secularist view practically conceive of local development far from any discrimination based on social gender. They are thus more open to the public space and to universal values than their Islamist adversaries generally chained by a sometimes radical conservative representation of religious texts. Indeed, social representations, the interpretation of religion, the social imaginary without forgetting the power relations, all this contributed well, within a patriarchal system, to a hierarchy of social relations while determining roles and precise statutes for men and women. A historical approach stopping on some stations of the struggle of the Moroccan feminist movement since independence, especially around the issue of legal status and the family code, will certainly inform us about the new situation of women's rights and the challenges envisioned by the wakes of the patriarchal system. In the same way, the descriptive analytical approach appears indispensable in these conditions.