Comment saisir la production du genre par le droit ? Réflexions à partir d’une triangulation de données qualitatives sur les juridictions familiale et pénale à Dakar

Abstract

In Dakar, Senegal, the way law is implemented by family courts (consequences of divorce) and penal courts (repression of homosexuality) contributes to consolidating a heterosexual and patriarchal social order that reinforces gender inequalities. This article offers a retrospective overview of how the study was conducted and the methods used to reach these results. By bringing together different qualitative methods – archival work (on jurisprudence, judicial documents, and parliamentary debates), interviews, and observations – it became possible to triangulate data, the heuristic value of which resides in its capacity to reveal the processes of gender categorisation at work in the implementation of the law.