Algérie : femmes et familles entre droit et réalité
A number of studies have been published on the deep-seated changes occurring in Algerian families. Fertility is falling, marriages are happening later in life, the Ayla kinship unit has changed and the traditional family has been replaced by the contemporary family, home to a clash between ideological tension and socio-economic change. But the transformations are far from unequivocal, the result being a difficult transition in which the dynamics of sociological differentiation have given rise to the coexistence of several family organisation modes (conjugal, single parent, extended, stepfamily, etc.) and had varying impacts on relationships between men and women and on the real status of women in society. Society has been turned upside down by the radical violence of the 1990s, the economic and social consequences of privatisation and state disengagement, the rise in unemployment, rural exodus, and the new relationships forged by the liberal economy. Yet paradoxically, all matters symbolic (gender roles, patriarchy, cultural norms, etc.) and legal (the Family Code, legal bodies, etc.) remain marked by an anthropology informed by the old, patriarchal and patrilineal model. This article posits a reading of the legal provisions in the Family Code in the light of the multiple variables in demographic and sociological change in Algeria.
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2014
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Authors: | Ouadah-Bedidi, Zahia ; Saadi, Nourredine |
Institutions: | Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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