Femininity, Masculinity, and Sexuality in Morocco and Hollywood

This book is the first to formulate an ideology of emancipation for women in Morocco. Beginning with constructs of the body, femininity and masculinity, it analyzes the central role played by the sociopolitical writing of sexuality in creating gender hierarchy. The author focuses on Morocco, while drawing parallels with Hollywood cinema, one of the great producers of femininity and masculinity, and conducts an exhaustive examination of constructs of femininity and masculinity in language, social practices, cultural productions and legal texts. The objectives of this project are tripartite: it exposes the dynamics that devalue womens humanity; it charts the schemas of their sexual, economic and sociopolitical exploitation; and it advances concrete solutions for re-establishing womens human dignity.

Osire Glacier is a lecturer in the History Department and in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Bishops University, Canada. She is the author of Les Droits humains au Maroc entre discours et réalité; Des femmes politiques au Maroc dhier à aujourdhui; Universal Rights, Systemic Violations and Cultural Relativism in Morocco; and Political Women in Morocco, Then and Now; and the blog www.etudesmarocaines.com.