RAHMA BOURQUIA, MOUNIRA CHARRAD, AND NANCY GALLAGER, ED., Femmes, Culture et Societé au Maghreb, 2 vols. (Casablanca: Afrique-Orient, 1996). Pp. 338. $25.00 paper.

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This work seeks to portray the reality of the “Maghribi woman” (the Maghrib of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) using a gender-studies approach. It therefore has both the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach: its multidisciplinarity allows each contribution to enrich the others by analyzing women in turn through their legal status and economic and political role. At the same time, however, this exclusive focus on women at times overlooks important aspects of women's social relations with their broader environment.