Faculty of letters and Humaniites Ain Chock, Hassan II University

Venue: Casablanca
November 23, 24, 2017
Proposals by: 28.02.2017

Between the 18th and 20th centuries, social, economic and cultural transformations North and South of the Mediterranean have led to the reconsideration of the traditional patriarchal gender arrangements in order the central tension between egalitarian and hierarchical values, between egalitarian and non-egalitarian practices, between civic and individual rights, between re-patriarchalization and de-patriarchalization of gender identities and relations (Macé 2015). Historically, this tension took place even inside European societies and in the Maghreb as well as in the Middle East in relation to colonization and modernizing projects of the struggle for independence (Charrad 2001; Badran, Cooke 2004). During the globalized postcolonial era and its transnational intersectionality, this tension continues and deepens while interweaving with social and identity stakes, thus constituting new gender arrangements with their own compromises and conflicts (Kandiyoti 1988, 2013 ; Patil 2013).

On the one hand, in the European Union, equality in rights gained by feminism has become the norm, including sexuality. Read more and source … (Web)