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Trajectoires sexuelles et amoureuses l'exemple des femmes de marcory et koumassi (abidjan)

Defense date:

Jan. 1, 1996

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Montpellier 3

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Abstract EN:

This research is aimed first and foremost at finding out the determinants of the sexual and amorous trajectories of the women of abidjan. Particular attention is paid to behaviour and also sentiments (love, emotions, intimacy, etc. ) and the representations that govern them. A qualitative and quantitative survey was performed in particular to show what belongs to the private sphere, to the unsaid and confession. The points studied include the determinants in the choice of sexual partner s by women, the conditions of the decision to accomplish the relationship, the meeting place, the various forms of seduction, the duration of the relationship and the relations between the partners. Stress is laid on t he presentation and perception of the body through analysis of the physical features highlighted or attitudes. It was fo und that many sexual practices, attitudes and sexual representations that were frequently dependent on anatomical conceptions or social perceptions of aids generated other types of behaviour such as the use of new contraception and ab ortion techniques or the adoption of new criteria in the choice of a sexual partner ('well-padded' persons, etc. ) aids thus causes changes in sexual behaviour that often do not match strategies for the prevention of sexually transmitt ed diseases in general. In the light of these remarks, the work takes into account certain sexual attitudes in the sociological category that are directly related to representations of aids and likely to expose persons to the risk of retrovirus transmission.

Abstract FR:

Cette recherche vise, avant tout, a connaitre les determinants dans les trajectoires sexuelles et amoureuses des femmes d'abidjan. Les comportements mais aussi les sentiments (amour, emotions, intimite, etc. ) et les representations qui les regissent interessent tout particulierement ce travail. Il s'agit notamment de mettre en evidence, a partir d'une enquet e qualitative et quantitative aupres d'un echantillon representatif, ce qui releve du domaine prive, du non-dit et de la confession. Entre autres, sont etudies les determinants dans le choix du ou des partenaires sexuels des femmes, les conditions du choix a la relation effective, les lieux de rencontre, les diverses formes de seduction, la duree de la relation effective, les lieux de rencontre, les diverses formes de seduction, la duree de la relation et les relations des partenaires. Il est notamment question de la presentation et de la perception du corps a travers l'analyse des particularites physiques valorisees ou des manieres d'etre. On releve que de nombreuses pratiques, attitudes et representations sexuelles, frequemment dependantes de conceptions anatomiques ou de perceptions sociales du sida, sont generatrices d'autres comportements tels que l'utilisation de nouveaux moyens contraceptifs et abortifs ou encore l'adoption de nouveaux criteres dans le choix du partenaire sexuel ("bien en forme", etc). De ce fait, le sida engendre des modifications dans le comportement sexuel souvent inadequates aux strategies de prevention des maladies sexuellement transmissibles, en general. Compte tenu de ces remarques, ce travail tient compte de certaines attitudes sexuelles, d'ordre sociologique, directement reliees aux representations du sida et susceptibles d'exposer les individus au risque de transmission retrovirale.