Being a Female Surfer in Morocco

The Norms and Social Uses of the Beach

Bibliographic Data

ID20414647
AuthorsChristophe Guibert (0000-0002-9149-3634), Chadia Arab (0000-0003-2960-0299)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue3
Pages159-172
Publication date2017-11-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourism Culture & Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1098-304X • E-ISSN: 1943-4146
PublisherCognizant, LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3727/109830417x15057457661613
OpenAlexW2767606289
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

This study aims to understand how Moroccan women authorize themselves (or are allowed) to practice a sport perceived as masculine. Being a Moroccan female surfer involves combining social and cultural norms with being watched by men. Alternating between profits (social and symbolic) and disadvantages, the surfers interviewed (in interviews conducted during a field study in April and May 2014) have all been subjected to unusual early socialization with their male peers or within the family sphere (fathers and brothers). Female surfing, although quantitatively scarce, ultimately questions the inclusion of the values upheld by Moroccan society through relationships to the body in public places (beaches) and gender relations. The preferred methodology to test our research hypotheses is based on long phases of observation at preselected beaches and around 20 semistructured style interviews

Gender relations · Geography · Socialization · Sociology · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Gender Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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