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

By: Publisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813055268
  • 0813055261
  • 9780813059815
  • 081305981X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: PolygynyDDC classification:
  • 306.84/23 23
LOC classification:
  • GN480.35 .M35 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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