The Process of Couple Formation : Experience and Imagination

5 Introduction Nouria BENGHABRIT-REMAOUN 21 Representations of Life as a Couple among Marginalized Adolescents Khedidja MOKEDDEM 67 The Issue of Couple Formation among Single Mothers Yamina RAHOU 93 Singlehood: Between Personal Aspirations and Collective Expectations – A Case Study in Constantine Férial ABBAS 125 The Formation of Couples among Sex Workers: Experiences and Representations Keltouma AGUIS 149 The Social Organization of Domestic Work and Couple Life Oumeima MAHMOUDI 161 Divorce as an Ordeal in Couple Life Salima BOUZIANE 181 General Bibliography

The findings from the previous project, ‘Women and Life Plans’, highlighted the enabling conditions for women’s initiatives in specific areas (entrepreneurship, employment, etc.), relating to the significant decline in the birth rate (women have on average two to three times fewer children than their mothers), changes in the size and structure of the family due to later marriage (from 16–17 to 29–30), and the difficulty of finding housing, have resulted in a relative redistribution of power within the family...