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The 1960s were a time of cultural and political change in Morocco which also saw the emergence of a new phenomenon in the Moroccan press: the emergence of magazines conceived by, for, and about women. Based on the idea that the study of these magazines is essential to understanding gender politics and to tracing the intellectual history of feminism in Morocco, this article addresses the development of Moroccan female press from its beginnings in the 1960s until the present time. The aim is to analyse, from a gender and feminist perspective, how these publications reflected the evolution of ideas about the role of women in Moroccan society and contributed both to perpetuate patriarchal stereotypes about women and to articulate the first feminist demands in Morocco. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the end of the 20th century a new critical project led by women has been underway in Morocco, focused on the literary production of women writers from Morocco and other parts of the Arab world. It is a true gynocritical project that establishes an intellectual dialogue with the North American researcher Elaine Showalter, who coined the term gynocritics in 1981 in reference to a new framework for studying literature produced by women. This paper looks at the extent to which Moroccan gynocriticism has provided new tools for criticism and literary studies, as the emergence of this phenomenon has altered the terms of debate regarding women‟s writing in Morocco. In their analyses, female Moroccan critics address women‟s writing from new perspectives, defending the recognition of women writers and their acceptance within the Moroccan literary canon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]