Women's Tyranny in Morocco. Domestic Violence in Reverse

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Gender Studies Mohammed V University at Agdal (Department of English) course: Gender Studies language: English abstract: This paper examines the other side of gender violence. Domestic violence is not always about men being victimizers and women being victims. In this study I tried to investigate the opposite of this assumption.It is generally assumed that in our Moroccan culture women the fairer sex are the victims of abuse and ill-treatment on the part of their male partners the rough sex. In this research paper we aim to examine the reverse of this assumption. Specifically we aim to provide an answer to the question of whether Moroccan women abuse their male partners and if the answer is in the affirmative we intend to answer another related double question namely how and why do Moroccan women abuse their male partners? It would be noted that in the present work we use the expression women's tyranny to refer to women's ill-treatment of men by using harshness cruelty and violence and their prioritization of their own selfish interests over those of men. It also implies the violation of men's rights and the questioning of their manhood. The term women's tyranny will be defined and discussed at length in chapter 1