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.
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Polygyny--United States. African American women--United States. Muslim women--United States. Man-woman relationships--United States.