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- Title
Gendering the City, Gendering the Nation: Contesting Urban Space in Fes, Morocco.
- Authors
NEWCOMB, RACHEL
- Abstract
An actor-centered approach to the gendering of urban spaces demonstrates how individuals respond to competing ideologies in determining the rules that surround women's presence in urban, Muslim spaces. This article examines how women in the Ville Nouvelle of Fes, Morocco draw on local conceptualizations of hospitality, kinship, and shame as they debate the gendering of four urban areas: the street, the café, a cosmopolitan exercise club, and cyber space. Women's tactics for occupying social space indicate the resilience of local culture in the face of ideologies that attempt to posit a specific vision of women in the Moroccan nation state. [Moroccan women, Islam, gender, public space, urban space, Middle East and North Africa]
- Subjects
MOROCCO; WOMEN in popular culture; PUBLIC spaces; HOSPITALITY; SOCIAL space
- Publication
City & Society, 2006, Vol 18, Issue 2, p288
- ISSN
0893-0465
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1525/city.2006.18.2.288