Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda

Several seminars were recently held in Algeria on issues relating to sexuality, women and the status of families. Faced with a situation that tends to encourage the confinement of women’s bodies and control their sexuality, several social practices seem to break away from such standards. Based on pe...

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Main Author: Ferhati Barkahoum
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2010-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/891
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description Several seminars were recently held in Algeria on issues relating to sexuality, women and the status of families. Faced with a situation that tends to encourage the confinement of women’s bodies and control their sexuality, several social practices seem to break away from such standards. Based on personal experience as a researcher working on the margins, the social phenomena of the “tribal” prostitution of the Ouled Naïl in the Algerian Sahara, this field survey explores borders and taboos (prostitution, female celibacy), and some moral uncertainties concerning post-colonial society in Algeria.
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Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
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title Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
title_full Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
title_fullStr Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
title_full_unstemmed Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
title_short Enquêter sur la prostitution en Algérie. Souvenirs de Bou-Saâda
title_sort enqueter sur la prostitution en algerie souvenirs de bou saada
topic Algeria
sexuality
prostitution
Oulad Nail
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url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/891
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