Trajectoires et revendications féminines dans le règlement des différends conjugaux autour de deux études de cas en milieu mossi (Burkina Faso)

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ID15056314
AuthorsBéatrice Bertho (0000-0001-6792-4492, Laboratoire de Biologie du Développement, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume61
Issue2
Pages99-115
Publication date2012-04-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAutrepart (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1278-3986 • E-ISSN: 2109-9561
PublisherCAIRN (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3917/autr.061.0099
OpenAlexW1999372626
LanguageFR
Citations received7
References cited8

Drawing on two cases of marital disputes brought by women before the State services in North-Western Burkina Faso, this article analyses the strategies pursued by these women to try resolving their conflicts with their husbands. Set in the wider context of the transformation of matrimonial practices and of conjugal roles, the women’s itineraries are marked by tensions between dependence ­ on their husbands and their social and family groups ­ and relative autonomy. They seek to alter the existing balance of power between their husbands and themselves, and to increase the influence they think they have over their own future within what little room they have for manœuvre

Art · Autonomy · Geography · Humanities · Political science · Sociology · African Studies and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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