Aïcha's Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and Resistance in Dakar

Aïcha's Sounith Hair Salon: Friendship, Profit, and Resistance in Dakar

Whereas high-profile women leaders in Dakar, Senegal's Sunnī movement engage public media like radio and television to disseminate their movement's ideals of Islamic reform and modesty for women, lesser-known female authorities convert private spaces like their homes into public forums (“i...

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Published in:Islamic Africa Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 199 - 224
Main Author: Augis, Erin
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Leiden Northwestern University Press 01-10-2014
Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
Subjects:
Beauty salons
Femininity
Friendship
Hair
Islam
Leadership
Muslims
Political activists
Political reform
Reform & reorganization
Religious movements
Resistance
Social movements
Sufism
Veils
Women
Womens studies
Working women
Dakar, Senegal
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Summary:Whereas high-profile women leaders in Dakar, Senegal's Sunnī movement engage public media like radio and television to disseminate their movement's ideals of Islamic reform and modesty for women, lesser-known female authorities convert private spaces like their homes into public forums (“internal publics”) as a means to perpetuate Sunnī norms. This article examines the case of Aïcha, who as owner of a prosperous Sunnī beauty salon that she operates in her living room, educates other women about reformist values and provides employment for female adherents. In this way, lesser-known female authorities like Aïcha may spread more potent political and countercultural messages about state secularism, tarīqas, and Muslim femininity for the movement than illustrious female Sunnī leaders.
ISSN:2333-262X
2154-0993
DOI:10.5192/215409930502199