Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands /
Majeed, Debra,
Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
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.
9780813055268 9780813059815
Polygyny--United States.
African American women--United States.
Muslim women--United States.
Man-woman relationships--United States.
Electronic Books.
GN480 / .P659 2015
Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2015. - 1 online resource
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.
9780813055268 9780813059815
Polygyny--United States.
African American women--United States.
Muslim women--United States.
Man-woman relationships--United States.
Electronic Books.
GN480 / .P659 2015