Gender and the Politics of Identity
Gender and the Politics of Identity
This chapter examines the role of gender in both the legibility and legitimization logics that structured the colonial political field as well as the interactive identity struggles in which external and internal social boundaries were contested and negotiated in Moroccan society. More specifically, it considers the centrality of gender for the colonial state's attempts to maintain ethnic and religious social divisions, the nationalist struggles to redefine Moroccan identity, and Mohamed V's active engagement with the Woman Question in the 1940s. It also discusses external identification processes in which gender played a significant role and the ways in which elite and non-elite urban and rural Moroccan women influenced identity politics during the protectorate period. Finally, it explains how the status of Moroccan women became intertwined with nationalist classification struggles and with Mohamed V's attempt to challenge the legitimizing logics of colonial intervention.
Keywords: gender, legibility, legitimization, colonial political field, Moroccan identity, Mohamed V, Moroccan women, identity politics, classification struggles, colonial intervention
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