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Gendering the City, Gendering the Nation: Contesting Urban Space in Fes, Morocco
Author(s) -
NEWCOMB RACHEL
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.2006.18.2.288
Subject(s) - gender studies , ideology , shame , sociology , islam , kinship , public space , space (punctuation) , hospitality , social space , face (sociological concept) , geography , political science , anthropology , politics , tourism , social science , architectural engineering , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , engineering , law
An actor‐centered approach to the gendering of urban spaces demonstrates how individuals respond to competing ideologies in determining the rules that surround women's presence in urban, Muslim spaces. This article examines how women in the Ville Nouvelle of Fes, Morocco draw on local conceptualizations of hospitality, kinship, and shame as they debate the gendering of four urban areas: the street, the café, a cosmopolitan exercise club, and cyber space. Women's tactics for occupying social space indicate the resilience of local culture in the face of ideologies that attempt to posit a specific vision of women in the Moroccan nation state. [Moroccan women, Islam, gender, public space, urban space, Middle East and North Africa]