Teaching Happiness: Women's Education and Transnational Currents in Modern Morocco

IF 0.6 3区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Journal of Womens History Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1353/jowh.2022.0025

Anny Gaul

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Abstract:This article presents a transnational account of women's education in modern Morocco. While previous accounts of this history have relied on the colonial archive, this study also considers an assembled collection of Arabic sources reflecting Moroccan perspectives. These sources show that Moroccans advocated for specific changes to women's education, drawing on reforms taking place in Egypt and the Levant. Analyzing nationalist discourse about gender and education reveals a key distinction between colonial and nationalist approaches to women's education: a new understanding of happiness that was central to nationalist discourse and absent from colonial policy. This account centers Moroccans as historical actors and highlights the circulation of ideas and people across North Africa and within the Arabic-speaking world. In doing so, it emphasizes the need to look beyond the circuits that connected metropole and colony. This opens the possibility for a new periodization of modern gender norms in Morocco and offers a basis for a feminist critique of women's education in modern Morocco, transcending both colonial and national historiographical frameworks.

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教育幸福:现代摩洛哥的妇女教育与跨国潮流

摘要：本文介绍了现代摩洛哥妇女教育的跨国概况。虽然之前对这段历史的描述依赖于殖民档案，但本研究也考虑了反映摩洛哥观点的阿拉伯资料集。这些消息来源表明，摩洛哥人主张借鉴埃及和黎凡特正在进行的改革，对妇女教育进行具体改革。分析关于性别和教育的民族主义话语，揭示了殖民主义和民族主义女性教育方法之间的一个关键区别：对幸福的新理解是民族主义话语的核心，而殖民政策却没有。这篇报道以摩洛哥人作为历史行动者为中心，强调了思想和人民在北非和阿拉伯语世界的传播。在这样做的过程中，它强调了超越连接大都市和殖民地的电路的必要性。这为摩洛哥现代性别规范的新时期开辟了可能性，并为超越殖民地和国家历史框架对现代摩洛哥妇女教育进行女权主义批判提供了基础。

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期刊介绍： Journal of Women"s History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women"s history. It does not attempt to impose one feminist "line" but recognizes the multiple perspectives captured by the term "feminisms." Its guiding principle is a belief that the divide between "women"s history" and "gender history" can be, and is, bridged by work on women that is sensitive to the particular historical constructions of gender that shape and are shaped by women"s experience.