Undutiful daughters claiming their futures and the uncertainties of non-marital love in Casablanca

Abstract

Having Casablanca as a field site, this article situates heterosexual love and intimacy in the lives of young women experiencing social precariousness, including the uncertain non-status of unmarried mothers. Ethnographic insights broadly question love ideals and practices in Morocco, suggesting that these are simultaneously informed by socio-cultural and political-economic processes. It will be argued that women imagine and craft potential futures from an uncertain condition at the intersection of normative boundaries to non-marital sexuality and childbirth and socio- economic inequalities.

Keywords

• Morocco
• love
• uncertainty
• unmarried mothers
• future.