Hughes Rinker Cortney
a Department of Sociology and Anthropology , George Mason University , Fairfax , Virginia.
Med Anthropol. 2015;34(3):226-42. doi: 10.1080/01459740.2014.922082. Epub 2014 Sep 16.
Self-governance and responsibility are two traits associated with neoliberal citizenship in scholarly and popular discourses, but little of the literature on this topic focuses on North Africa. My goal, in this article, is not only to fill this void but also to complicate understandings of neoliberalism through an examination of the relationship between reproductive health care, development policy, and popular Islamic beliefs in Morocco. My discussion is based on fieldwork in Rabat, Morocco, which included observations in health clinics, interviews with patients and staff, and visits to patients' homes. By analyzing the childbearing and childrearing practices of Moroccan women who visited the clinics, I pose that neoliberal logic cannot be predefined or understood as a monolithic concept. I demonstrate that women were active in their own governance and accountable for their reproductive behaviors, but they did so because of their understandings of what Islam says about fertility and motherhood.
在学术和大众话语中，自治和责任是与新自由主义公民身份相关的两个特征，但关于这一主题的文献很少关注北非。在本文中，我的目标不仅是填补这一空白，而且要通过审视摩洛哥生殖健康护理、发展政策和流行的伊斯兰信仰之间的关系，使对新自由主义的理解更加复杂。我的讨论基于在摩洛哥拉巴特的实地调查，其中包括在健康诊所的观察、对患者和工作人员的访谈以及对患者家庭的走访。通过分析前往诊所的摩洛哥女性的生育和育儿实践，我认为新自由主义逻辑不能被预先定义或理解为一个单一的概念。我证明，女性在自身治理中积极主动，并对自己的生殖行为负责，但她们这样做是基于她们对伊斯兰教关于生育和母亲身份的教义的理解。
