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The Role of Social Media in Promoting Women’s Rights in Morocco in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring

January 2019

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Mohammed Yachoulti

Université Moulay Ismail

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Gendered spatial structuring in Moroccan feminist movies

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As a popular audio-visual outlet, cinema remains an influential cultural artefact with an ubiquitous potentiality for human spatial mapping, meaning-making and attitudes constructing. Research on the perceptional effects of international cinemas before and during the advance of the internet technologically mediated world is noticeably abundant. The sexist filmic representations of women seem to dot many academic works belonging to media and feminist studies. However, space and gender tend to succumb unilaterally to the patriarchal masculinized power in the top-grossed mainstream movies. In particular, this article argues that the local feminist movies allow for gendered spatial reorganization in a way that reconstructs and empowers their voice and agency. Drawing on the theory of feminist intersectionality and politics of home, which accentuates women’s diversities and spatially active consciousness, the present textually analyzed Moroccan feminist movies which are claimed to evolve from a passive genderly spaced depiction of women to a dynamic genderly spacing of their subjectivities.

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