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Majeed, Debra,

Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references 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.

ISBN: 9780813055268 0813055261 9780813059815 081305981X

Source: 95B66A64-EEFE-4078-A96E-A154DA16B74A OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctvwwd84j JSTOR

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Polygyny--United States.
African American women--United States.
Muslim women--United States.
Man-woman relationships--United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
African American women.
Man-woman relationships.
Muslim women.
Polygyny.
RELIGION / Islam / General

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: GN480.35 / .M35 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 306.84/23