Women, Islam, and the Moroccan State: The Struggle over the Personal Status Law

Maddy‐Weitzman, Bruce

doi:10.3751/59.3.13

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“…There is evidence of hijab being worn by wealthy, urban women in Morocco (Hessini 1994), but poorer, rural, and Amazigh women more often wear hijab 7 . The late King Hassan II's daughters fulfilled royal duties unveiled since the 1950s (Maddy-Weitzman 2005).…”

Section: The Moroccan Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Does Interviewer Religious Dress Affect Survey Responses? Evidence from Morocco

Benstead

2014

Politics and Religion

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Few studies examine religiosity-of-interviewer effects, despite recent expansion of surveying in the Muslim world. Using data from a nationallyrepresentative survey of 800 Moroccans conducted in 2007, this study investigates whether and why interviewer religiosity and gender affect responses to religiously-sensitive questions. Interviewer dress affects responses to four of six items, but effects are larger and more consistent for religious respondents, in support of power relations theory. Religious Moroccans provide less pious responses to secular-appearing interviewers, whom they may link to the secular state, and more religious answers to interviewers wearing hijab, in order to safeguard their reputation in a society that values piety. Interviewer traits do not affect the probability of item-missing data. Religiosity-of-interviewer effects depend on interviewer gender for questions about dress choice, a gendered issue closely related to interviewer dress. Interviewer gender and dress should be coded and controlled for to reduce bias and better understand social dynamics.

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Section: The Moroccan Casementioning

confidence: 99%

Does Interviewer Religious Dress Affect Survey Responses? Evidence from Morocco

Benstead

2014

Politics and Religion

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“…Support for a more traditional way of life still exists, especially among those who think that Western colonization (and with it Western culture) has sown the seeds of immorality and heresy. 81 According to traditionalists, the solution to these problems can be achieved either by returning to the pre-colonial era or by emulating traditional Arab societies. This view also explains why many women (and men) are attracted to Arab television that broadcasts from the Gulf or the Middle East, guaranteeing "culturally and politically correct" programs.…”

Section: Islamist Oppositionmentioning

confidence: 99%