Court musician playing the kemanche, 1816
Tonight’s lecture gives the audience an insight into Lisa Mohrat’s research into Morocco’s sex industry since the country gained independence in 1956. Mohrat’s focus is on social stigmatization, colonial continuity and how sex work is presented in the media and in literature. Drawing on techniques of discourse analysis and high-quality interviews, she explores how power, gender and social inequality are manifested in this field. It becomes apparent that women in the sex industry are not mere objects of social control, but that they are also developing forms of strategic self-empowerment and social mobility.
This lecture will be delivered by Lisa Mohrat (University of the Armed Forces, Munich) as part of the series Foundations of Islam: Women, organized by the Munich Middle Eastern-Mediterranean-Central Asian Center (4MZ).
The event will be held in German. For more information, please visit the 4MZ website.