The Role of Young Women in Berber Society

The unique position of girls and young women in society has become a topic of widespread interest. Indeed, although much has been written and many conferences held on the correlation of gender and age, very few studies have truly dealt with the unique injustices and hardships undergone by young female populations in different parts of the world. The majority of the genderand age-related work done to date seems to be a response to an academic fashion, an attempt to be en vogue, resulting largely in generalities and clichés, a repetition of stereotypes taken from the mass media, without probing deeply into the respective context and unveiling the hidden social realities upon which the suffering of young women and the injustices inflicted on them are based.