Abstract
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.
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