“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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2020
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-183 |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Family law B Divorce B Tradition B Senegal B Islamic Law B Kinship B Custom B Gender |
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