Les Roms: Une communauté de gens mariés. Réflexions sur le genre et l’ethnicité à partir du point de vue des femmes

Hasdeu, Iulia (2014) Les Roms: Une communauté de gens mariés. Réflexions sur le genre et l’ethnicité à partir du point de vue des femmes. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 59 (1). pp. 69-83. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

The paper examines the gender and ethnicity tie in a Roma community from Romania by considering the women’s point of view towards marriage, couple relations and domestic violence. We can call these Roma “married people” as far as the marriage is the crux point where the danger of sexual impurity, the gendered adulthood and the ethnicity are managed. For women, the marriage is both patriarchal oppression and self-emancipation, space for being exchanged (the bride price is practiced) and for becoming a R(r)omni [married woman as well as romani woman], which is the only gender identity admitted as adult for them: the marital status, the couple relation and the social roles concerning the family life make Roma women protagonists of their own life, human subjects not just objects.

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