“Please Give Me My Voice”: Women’s Out-of-Court Divorce in a Secondary City in Senegal
Abstract Divorce is not uncommon among Muslims in Senegal and tends to take place outside of court, even if the Senegalese Family Code has made out-of-court divorce illegal. Yet little is known about how women in particular may obtain divorce outside of the court. This article provides ethnographic...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2020
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Islamic Africa
Année: 2020, Volume: 11, Numéro: 2, Pages: 163-183 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Women
B Family law B Divorce B Tradition B Senegal B Islamic Law B Kinship B Custom B Gender |
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| Résumé: | Abstract Divorce is not uncommon among Muslims in Senegal and tends to take place outside of court, even if the Senegalese Family Code has made out-of-court divorce illegal. Yet little is known about how women in particular may obtain divorce outside of the court. This article provides ethnographic material on the way women divorce out-of-court, and the repertoires of justification they draw on. In line with scholarly work on women’s use of Islamic courts in other countries the article foregrounds women’s agency, yet in a different out-of-court context. First, it is shown that women draw on multiple, gendered, repertoires. Second, it is argued that because family members play a central role in the divorces studied, the analysis of women’s agency requires an attentiveness to kin and women’s “kinwork”. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-0993 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Islamic Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21540993-01101012 |