Aïcha's Sounith Hair Salon: friendship, profit, and resistance in Dakar

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Title:	Aïcha's Sounith Hair Salon: friendship, profit, and resistance in Dakar
Author:	Augis, Erin
Year:	2014
Periodical:	Islamic Africa (ISSN 2154-0993)
Volume:	5
Issue:	2
Pages:	199-224
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Senegal
Subjects:	Islam authority women leadership
External link:	http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.5192/215409930502199
Abstract:	Whereas high-profile women leaders in Dakar, Senegal's Sunni 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 Sunni norms. This article examines the case of Aïcha, who as owner of a prosperous Sunni 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, tariqas, and Muslim femininity for the movement than illustrious female Sunni leaders. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]