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Podcast: New Books in Human Rights
Episode: Amy Evrard, âThe Moroccan Womenâs Rights Movementâ (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
Description: Amy Evrardâs first book, The Moroccan Womenâs Rights Movement (Syracuse University Press, 2014), examines womenâs attempts to change their patriarchal society via their movement for equality and rights. At the center of Evrardâs book is the 2004 reform of the Family Code known as the Mudawwana, in which Moroccan women made important gains in marriage, divorce, and custody rights. Combining historical analysis of legal codes, nuanced surveys of the complicated political arena, and richly developed stories of individual women, Evrard demonstrates how womenâs integration is stymied by poverty and illiteracy, as well as by nationalist and anti-moder...