Religion in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Salime's notion of the entanglement and interdependant trajectories of the feminist & Islamist movements in Morocco
Last century was spent fighting for human rights. Zakia Salime was among those who joined movements for women rights in middle east. She discusses how decades of fights over widening the expression and rights transformed Moroccan feminism and Islamism. She is active in feminist movement since 1990s. She wrote extensively on Moroccan feminism highlighting that here was not enough research on the topic already. There had been serious influence on feminism in Middle East and the efforts led to development of a clear gender policy. She showed light on how Islamist women influenced public representations of feminism and the rights of women (Salime, 2011). In her book "Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco" she defies approaches causing pressure on division of the women's movements on the lines of religion and secular parameters.
feminist & Islamist movements in Morocco
Morocco was a stage for discussion of making projects democratized during 1980's and...
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