The Gender Studies Research Group hosted a seminar on “Women in Politics” in May 2, 2016, moderated by Pr. Soumaya Belhabib with the participation of Pr. Aili Mari Tripp as a guest speaker from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and Pr. Naima Benlarbi from Ibn Tofail University, Kénitra, Morocco. The moderator of the seminar, Pr. Soumaya Belhabib, gave the opening talk ...
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities staff from Ibn Tofail University in Kenitra held a conference on Monday, May 2nd, titled “Women in Politics”. Moderated by Professor Soumaya Belhabib, without whom the conference would not have been possible, two professors – Aili Mari Tripp from Al-Akhawayn University and Naima Benlarabi from Ibn Tofail – delivered their ...
In Collaboration with the Gender Studies Research Group at Ibn Tofail University, the PLCC Faculty organized a workshop in tribute to Fatema Mernissi in March 31st, 2016 at the UIR campus. The workshop was divided into four parts: the opening session and welcoming speech (09:30 to 10:00), "Panel ...
Approaches to Speakers’ Language Choices: Social Class, Social Network, and Community of Practice
The study of language variation or speakers’ language choices in sociolinguistics has been conducted using different approaches or a combination of some of these approaches. This essay reviews three approaches to language variation, namely those using the notions of social class, social network and community of practice, considering their strengths and weaknesses as well as the relation between them. Social class is one of the long-established approaches to language variation in sociolinguistics. ...
“The development of gender equality for Moroccan women – illusion or reality?”: A Review
BIBLIOGRAPHY Desrues, T., & Nieto, M. J. (2009). The development of gender equality for Moroccan women – illusion or reality? Journal of Gender Studies, 18(1), 25-34. The article under review is written by Thierry Desrues and Juana Moreno Nieto and published in the Journal of Gender Studies by Routledge. ...