Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Feminism and nationalism are variably always incompatible ideological patterns in all contexts. To start with, Nationalism has always been seen in the light of the relationship between feminism and modern forms of citizenship and ultimately against antidemocratic forces. This paper questions and finally examines the theoretical framework within which feminism would be dubbed as a new emerging political body. A case in point would be to argue that feminism in the Moroccan context gained agency by force of the law to have finally resulted in ‘a feminist legal discourse’. A ‘Moroccan Feminism’, I would point out, has been contributing to the struggle for existence and to combat the traditionalist model since the emergence of some NGOs beginning of the 1980s. Theoretically, feminism, as it was at first and is still a political challenge’, is therefore a plausible argument for women’s autonomy or ‘sovereignty’ and subsequently designates a standpoint of opposition to fight for the emancipation of women and to subvert the patriarchal mainstream discourses towards changing the human relationship to the better. This paper explores how the concept of nationalism did not only come as a reaction of peoples who were socially, culturally, and religiously at a disadvantage, but it was concurrently a reaction to western hegemony and dominance. Nationalism is always regarded as an exaggerated sentiment of national consciousness. This paper also pins down the possibilities to the emergence of a nationalist or patriotic feminism, if not a transnational feminism.