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Labour migration of girls during adolescence has become a mass phenomenon and a determinant of nuptiality changes in numerous West African populations. To what extend does this experience influence women's future conjugal life, especially in terms of divorce ? We address the issue using both quantitative and qualitative data collected over the past 25 years in south-east Mali (Project Slam “Suivi longitudinal au Mali”). To some extent, migration during adolescence serves as an apprenticeship, by providing women with opportunities to access a wider “living space”, and skills to manage family life and conjugal relationships. However higher levels of labour migration during adolescence are associated not with higher, but with lower, levels of divorce. It seems therefore that the autonomy women gain through migration helps to develop alternatives to divorce and so to avoid the high personal costs of a marriage breakdown (notably having to leave the village, one's children and one's social network).
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This paper analyses the impact of men's international labour migration on the income-generating activities of the women who stay in their communities of origin. Previous research has reached mixed conclusions. Some find that men's migration discourages the economic participation of their spouses left behind, increasing women's dependence on them. In contrast, others argue that the resources generated by migration help women to develop new activities. Our results, based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in a small village in the Senegalese River Valley, do not point to an increased economic dependence of migrants' wives following their husbands' migration. Women strive, more or less successfully, to capture part of the resources generated by the migration of their husbands or brothers in order to develop or reinforce their economic activities. However, several factors condition and constrain women's efforts in accessing these resources and increasing their economic autonomy.
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The literature on the history of sexuality in Quebec has rapidly grown in the past few years and now covers most of the XlXth and XXth centuries. Yet, the sixties, a period of profound cultural changes, have received scant attention from scholars. This decade nevertheless corresponds to an intense redefinition of sexual relations and more, not only by accentuating the liberal trends towards the privatization of the body and the rise of individualism and intimacy, but by also accompanying a nationalist movement that did not hesitate to recycle some themes related to sexuality within its own emancipatory rhetoric. A reading of Parti Pris (1963-1968) confirms such a view. In the pages of this periodical, some authors attempted to challenge French Canadians' sexuality, questioning their values, their behaviour, and their inhibitions. They situated the question of sexuality in an ideological frame and envisioned a collective solution to its alleged perversions. For the Parti Pris collaborators, a new erotism would not only enable individual achievement, but also free the development of the national imaginary. Following the prevalent discourse of decolonisation, while recycling many phallocratie ideas, they found in the subject of sexuality the occasion to reflect on the recurrent problem of alienation and exploitation of French Canadians. The sexual liberation, seen through a fundamentally masculinist lens, represented, in the minds of these Utopian thinkers, an essential dimension of a global human liberation.
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