Radio, Women, and Life Within Marriage

Focusing on the output of a radio studio in Mali and in Niger, this chapter enters the complex domain of marriage and women’s role within it and examines the associated structural, cultural, and legal entanglements from the perspectives of radio listeners on the one hand and radio on the other. The chapter focuses on various aspects: definitions of empowerment among listeners whose opinions must not be sidelined, as they are the very target of empowerment campaigns; the voices used by radio for certain topics with the potentially inevitable risk of stereotyping; hegemonic masculinities as a pattern of practice; and the use of testimonies to convey important information to listeners.