Minority Rights, Feminism and International Law: Voices of Amazigh Women in Morocco

Investigating minority and indigenous women’s rights in Muslim-majority states, this book critically examines the human rights regime within international law.

Based on extensive and diverse ethnographic research on Amazigh women in Morocco, the book unpacks and challenges generally accepted notions of rights and equality. Significantly, and controversially, the book challenges the supposedly ‘emancipatory’ power vested in the human rights project; arguing that rights-based discourses are si...