Dottorato in Scienze Psicologiche, Antropologiche e dell'Educazione

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Tesi di dottorato

Strategie ed itinerari delle madri single nella società marocchina:negoziazioni dello stigma e ri-definizioni di un tabou (titolo provvisorio)

Strategies and itineraries of unwed mothers in contemporary Morocco: negotiations of stigma and redefinitions of a tabou (working title)

Attività di ricerca

Irene Capelli is a Ph.D student of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of Torino (scholarship of the Ministry of Education). In 2011 and 2012 she has carried out her ethnographic research in Casablanca (Morocco) among young women and single mothers. In looking at social stigma embedded in the condition of childbearing for unwed women and to its relation to the definition of ‘licit’/’illicit’ sexualities, her research aims to shed light on how socio-economic and marital status, gender and power relations shape sexualities and the politics of reproduction. Besides drawing attention to the symbolic aspects defining the meanings of maternity for girls and to emerging subjectivities, the issue of ‘single motherhood’ also questions the extent to which women’s (and infant) health in Morocco is informed by the social production of inequalities within the local political economy of health.  Fieldwork in Morocco (Oriental) had also been conducted within the Master of Science in Medical Anthropology (Brunel University, London), which Irene Capelli has received (with Distinction) in 2009. Reproductive health, migration and ‘multicultural policies’ in health care, with a focus on the experiences and insights of Moroccan migrant women in a town in Emilia Romagna have been dealt with in previous research (in the framework of Laurea Specialistica in Antropologia Culturale ed Etnologia, University of Bologna) in 2007-2008.