Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780813055268
- 9780813059815
- GN480 .P659 2015
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Includes bibliographies and index.
The road to understanding polygyny -- Agency and authority in polygyny -- Religious and experiential prescriptions -- Legalities and emotional well-being -- Imam Mohammed's commentary on polygyny -- Mental health and living polygyny -- Afterword: Muslim womanist praxis and polygyny.
Debra Majeed's ethnography of contemporary African American Muslim polygyny illuminates the varieties of and struggles within a type of family whose form and function is contrary to U.S. civil law.
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