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This paper places the political discourse on women’s issues in Morocco within the context of efforts by political elites to maintain the status quo against processes unleashed by democratization and the containment of political Islam. The author argues that despite changes in the relationship between the state and its citizens, the resistance of the old political elite remains strong. The paper goes on to find that under these conditions, Morocco’s women’s movement of the mid-1980s has rarely identified its activities as political, but instead has adopted a range of unconventional strategies to promote its concerns.