![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this context, a growing tendency, endorsed by the state, and referred to as “third way” Islamic feminism, has appeared to pacify the contention and create forms of conciliation between gender equality and the Islamic teachings. Academicians, civil society activists and policy makers are all engaged in a polarized debate about convergence and divergence between tradition and modernity where binary lines are still hazy and uncertain. Women are at the heart of this struggle as they are challenging traditional gender roles and compromising established social values in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In Morocco, where minor revolutionary change happened at the political level, the social arena saw sweeping waves of individualization in contrast to resisting acts of collectivism and conformity. Sociologists have coined terms like “crisis of values”, “Bricolage”, “Detraditionalization” to better describe situations of societies that fluctuate between values of the past and the present. Moroccan society appears to be undergoing a difficult transition from tradition to modernity with tension between Islam and feminism in their complex, infinite and fluid definitions and manifestations. Aspects of gender equality and the negotiation of visibility and power inside and outside the private sphere is strikingly an indication of a massive change in gender relations and social values. ![]() With the emergence of the “Arab spring” in 2011,men and women in Morocco started to become more aware of the changing nature of the relationship between them. ![]()
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