Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)

In Mauritania, where females are supposed to be subordinate to males, we in fact observe a complex diplomacy of relations between the sexes. The analysis of several mixed spaces that are available to the upper classes in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, show that women can be demanding with men...

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Main Author: Céline Lesourd
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Language:fra
Published: CNRS Éditions 2010-12-01
Series:L’Année du Maghreb
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/846
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description In Mauritania, where females are supposed to be subordinate to males, we in fact observe a complex diplomacy of relations between the sexes. The analysis of several mixed spaces that are available to the upper classes in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, show that women can be demanding with men and inverse roles: they require presents, attention, patience; they enjoy fuelling male rivalry and one-upmanship. These female manipulations must nonetheless follow certain codes; permanently wavering between private and public, there is a difference between what must be seen and what can be seen, between what can be told and what we must remain untold.
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Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
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flirting
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title Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
title_full Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
title_fullStr Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
title_full_unstemmed Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
title_short Bouche en cœur, battement de cils et tête à l’envers : rencontres et flirts à Nouakchott (Mauritanie)
title_sort bouche en coeur battement de cils et tete a l envers rencontres et flirts a nouakchott mauritanie
topic Mauritania
seduction
relations men/women
flirting
honor
url https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/846
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