| Summary: | Through an ethnography of the predation strategies –both material and symbolic– engaged in by young women in Dakar bars and nightclubs, this article examines the imaginaries and negotiations on which these social trajectories depend. How are autonomy and individual value worked out over the “night bird adventure”? What relations to oneself and to others emerge? Beyond the too simplistic idea of the “women-sex-object”, the complexity of the moral subject appears: it is often characterized by inconsistency and ambivalence, dreams and aspirations for a “different story”.
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