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”.

离婚在塞内加尔的穆斯林中并不少见，而且往往在法庭外发生，即使塞内加尔家庭法将庭外离婚定为非法。然而，人们对女性如何在法庭外获得离婚知之甚少。这篇文章提供了关于女性庭外离婚方式的民族志材料，以及她们所利用的正当理由。与其他国家关于妇女使用伊斯兰法庭的学术工作一致，这篇文章突出了妇女的能动性，但在不同的庭外背景下。首先，它表明女性会利用多种性别化的曲目。其次，有人认为，由于家庭成员在所研究的离婚中起着核心作用，因此对女性能动性的分析需要关注亲属和女性的“亲属关系”。