ISBN : 9782296065321
GENDER PERCEPTION IN MOROCCAN CULTURE
Fatima Sadiqi
Culture may be broadly defined as a system of practices, rituals, beliefs, values, and ways of meaning of a community. All cultures control their members, but they differ in the degree of the control they impose on individuals. Moroccan culture is of a type that strongly constrains the behavior of men and women. The strength of this control cornes from the fact that it is channeled through powerful cultural components that closely regulate the lives of Moroccan men and women through the establishment of powerful social institutions. Eight such components have a direct impact on gender perception: History, Geography, Islam, Orality, Multilingualism, Social organization, Economic status, and Political system....