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Polygyny and Gender

Author : Zamambo V. Mkhize
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003814662
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Polygyny and Gender written by Zamambo V. Mkhize and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Africa have contrasting perspectives on gender, feminism, and the family from their Western counterparts. Similarly, social structures like, religion, capitalism and the law require a context-specific application to polygyny. This book examines the construction of gender identity in adults raised in Zulu polygynous families in the Hammarsdale area in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It highlights the complexities of gender identities as participants negotiate between modern, constitutional, and individual freedoms and patriarchal, cultural, and communal customs and traditions. The themes also point towards the argument between individuality and collectivism in the creation of gender identity within polygynous families in Zulu culture. The South African Constitution guarantees gender equality and individual rights and freedoms for its citizens, yet customary law practices, like polygyny, appear to contravene these principles. The participants reveal that although women and men experience different consequences, they cite similar prevalent factors like gender role socialisation, naming practices and the doctrine of seniority, influencing their gender identity construction. Print edition not for sale in Sub Saharan Africa.

The Evils of Polygyny

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714848
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Evils of Polygyny written by Rose McDermott and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One powerful structural factor which enforces and replicates patterns of male dominance is the practice of polygyny, which is shown by data to be harmful to women, children, men, and society"--

Polygyny

Author : Debra Majeed
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 081305981X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Polygyny written by Debra Majeed and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Captivating, provocative, and groundbreaking. Taking up the mandate that women's realities matter, Majeed writes with depth and analytical rigor about a topic we have scarcely begun to understand."--Amina Wadud, author of Inside The Gender Jihad "Tackles the contours and intimacies of a much practiced but seldom spoken about quasi-marriage that leaves women without legal support. A much-needed text on an extremely sensitive topic. Majeed excavates this terrain with finesse and a deft scholarly hand."--Aminah Beverly McCloud, coeditor of An Introduction to Islam in the 21st Century "Utilizes ethnographic research methods to imaginatively and constructively complexify the reality of polygyny in the lives of African American Muslim women."--Linda Elaine Thomas, author of Under the Canopy "Majeed's womanist approach is critical, yet balanced enough to include the concerns of women, men, and children, affording readers a broad and vital gaze into the lives of these unconventional households."--Zain Abdullah, author of Black Mecca "A powerful and long overdue study of polygyny in African American Muslim communities."--Shabana Mir, author of Muslim American Women on Campus Debra Majeed sheds light on families whose form and function conflict with U.S. civil law. Polygyny--multiple-wife marriage--has steadily emerged as an alternative to the low numbers of marriageable African American men and the high number of female-led households in black America. This book features the voices of women who welcome polygyny, oppose it, acquiesce to it, or even negotiate power in its practices. Majeed examines the choices available to African American Muslim women who are considering polygyny or who are living it. She calls attention to the ways in which interpretations of Islam's primary sources are authorized or legitimated to regulate the rights of Muslim women. Highlighting the legal, emotional, and communal implications of polygyny, Majeed encourages Muslim communities to develop formal measures that ensure the welfare of women and children who are otherwise not recognized by the state.

Polygyny in Rural Egypt

Author : Laila S. Shahd
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247668
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Polygyny in Rural Egypt written by Laila S. Shahd and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis of the economic, political, social, and cultural reasons for polygyny in rural Egypt

Women under Polygamy

Author : Walter Matthew Gallichan
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Women under Polygamy written by Walter Matthew Gallichan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women under Polygamy by Walter Matthew Gallichan is about women in polygamous marriages. Gallichan explores the role of polygamy in various cultures in history. Contents: "The Origin of the Harem, The Ancient Harem, Mohammed and Polygamy, Ancient Jewish Polygamy, The Women of India, The Cult of Women and Love..."

All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250

Author : Jan Rüdiger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004434577
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book All the King’s Women: Polygyny and Politics in Europe, 900–1250 written by Jan Rüdiger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In All the King’s Women Jan Rüdiger investigates medieval elite polygyny and its ‘uses’ in Northern Europe with a comparative perspective on England and France as well as Iberia.

Women of Principle

Author : Janet Bennion
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195353005
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Women of Principle written by Janet Bennion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-08 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth study of the female experience in one Mormon polygynous community, the Apostolic United Brethren. Women in such rigid, patriarchal religious groups are commonly portrayed as the oppressed, powerless victims of male domination. Janet Bennion shows, however, that the reality is far more complex. Many women converts are attracted to this group, and they are much more likely than male converts to remain there. Often these women are seeking improved socio-economic status for themselves and their children, as well as an escape from their marginalized status in the mainstream Mormon church. In the polygynous group women experience rapid assimilation, autonomy, and upward mobility. Bennion supports her study with narratives from the lives of women now living in the group--narratives that clearly reveal why many mainstream Mormon women are viewing polygyny as a viable alternative to the difficulties to single-motherhood, "spinsterhood," poverty, and emotional deprivation.

The Polygamy Question

Author : Janet Bennion
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874219973
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Polygamy Question written by Janet Bennion and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of polygamy occupies a unique place in North American history and has had a profound effect on its legal and social development. The Polygamy Question explores the ways in which indigenous and immigrant polygamy have shaped the lives of individuals, communities, and the broader societies that have engaged with it. The book also considers how polygamy challenges our traditional notions of gender and marriage and how it might be effectively regulated to comport with contemporary notions of justice. The contributors to this volume—scholars of law, anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, and religious studies—disentangle diverse forms of polygamy and polyamory practiced among a range of religious and national backgrounds including Mormon and Muslim. They chart the harms and benefits these models have on practicing women, children, and men, whether they are independent families or members of coherent religious groups. Contributors also address the complexities of evaluating this form of marriage and the ethical and legal issues surrounding regulation of the practice, including the pros and cons of legalization. Plural marriage is the next frontier of North American marriage law and possibly the next civil rights battlefield. Students and scholars interested in polygamy, marriage, and family will find much of interest in The Polygamy Question. Contributors include Kerry Abrams, Martha Bailey, Lori Beaman, Janet Bennion, Jonathan Cowden, Shoshana Grossbard, Melanie Heath, Debra Majeed, Rose McDermott, Sarah Song, and Maura Irene Strassberg.

Eating from One Pot

Author : Sarah Mosoetsa
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 186814786X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Eating from One Pot written by Sarah Mosoetsa and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on which household survival turns. This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability and conflict. As one of the interviewees put it: ‘We eat from one pot and should always help each other.’ Yet the stability of family networks is becoming fragile because of the enormous burden placed on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Through careful analysis, the experiences of survival are discussed in relation to the restructuring of the country's welfare and social policies, and the extension of social grants. Mosoetsa argues that these policies shape the livelihoods that people pursue in order to survive under desperate conditions, but fail to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.

Out of Eden

Author : David P. Barash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190275502
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Out of Eden written by David P. Barash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this changing world of what is deemed socially and politically "correct," polygamy is perhaps the last great taboo. Over the course of the last thousand years, monogamy - at least in name - has been the default setting for coupledom and procreation. And yet, throughout history, there havebeen inklings that "one-man, one-woman" may not be the most natural state-of-being for humans. The recent Ashley Madison "cheaters website" hacking, coupled with the high divorce rate of the last half-century, provide more than enough evidence to convince even a hopeless romantic that monogamy, andthe institution of marriage which props it up, is doomed to be a bygone remnant of a more socially conservative past.Esteemed writer and evolutionary biologist David P. Barash tackles this uncomfortable finding: that humans are actually biologically and anthropologically more inclined toward polygamy. With years of research in the field to back up this argument, Barash presents hundreds of anecdotes from bothevolutionary biology and human history that guide the reader through the societal impacts of monogamy and polygamy - some expected (sexual behavior) and others unexpected (the most successful models of parenting). Despite this natural inclination of humanity, Barash is reassuring throughout thisfascinating read in his resolution that "biology is not destiny."

Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East

Author : Alean Al-Krenawi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461493757
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East written by Alean Al-Krenawi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychosocial Impact of Polygamy in the Middle East is the first to deal with polygamy in the Middle East in a comprehensive way. This book fills a gap in the literature by addressing the question of the psychosocial impact of polygamy on all members of polygamous families by offering a new way of examining family structure, such as father-mother, father-children, mother-children relationships, and the relationships between offspring from different mothers. It introduces a model for intervention with polygamous families for scholars and practitioners. This book also explores Islam’s role in polygamy as well as the social and economic consequences of the phenomena.

We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves

Author : Patricia Dixon
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book We Want for Our Sisters what We Want for Ourselves written by Patricia Dixon and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Dr. Patricia Dixon debunks myths about monogamy and polygyny and challenges us to rethink our approach to marriage and family. This book reveals that before European domination, polygyny was an accepted marriage and family practice in over eighty percent of the world's cultures. Even in Western societies, polygyny has always been practiced. However, because it is done so under a myth of monogamy, this creates a "peculiar" form of the practice that is demoralizing to women. This peculiar form of polygyny was practiced in early European history in Greece and Rome. It was also practiced during slavery in the U.S. to the detriment of African American women and their families. Even in contemporary America, because closed polygyny is practiced in various forms, under the guise of monogamy, it continues to disempower African American women and undermine their marriages and families. Dr. Dixon offers many reasons to support polygyny, most importantly, the shortage of available African American men. Through extensive interviews, she offers an insider's look at polygynous marriages, showing readers its benefits and disadvantages, inter-personal dynamics, how financial, sexual, and parental responsibilities are determined, and the legal, moral, and cultural challenges that must be overcome in order to make polygynous marriage possible within American society. Finally, she calls for African American women to move toward building marriages and families based on love, truth, community, and ultimately a womanist ethic of care for sisters. Book jacket.

Hostels in South Africa

Author : Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869143718
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Hostels in South Africa written by Nomkhosi Xulu-Gama and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences."

Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali

Author : Heath, Rachel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cash transfers, polygamy, and intimate partner violence: Experimental evidence from Mali written by Heath, Rachel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Wife

Author : Paulina Chiziane
Publisher : Archipelago
ISBN 13 : 0914671499
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The First Wife written by Paulina Chiziane and published by Archipelago. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.

Polygamy

Author : Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000183343
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Polygamy written by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in modern Western societies. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis provides an examination and analysis of historical and contemporary polygamy. It outlines polygamy's place in anthropological theory and its rich sociocultural diversity in countries ranging from the USA and UK to Malaysia, India, regions of Africa and Tibet. Polygamy also addresses often difficult and controversial issues facing modern polygamists, such as prejudice, HIV/AIDS and women's emancipation. Polygamy: A Cross-cultural Analysis offers an anthropological overview of the fascinating yet often misunderstood institution of polygamy.

Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists

Author : Keith McMahon
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315667
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists written by Keith McMahon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first full account of literary representations of sexuality and gender in pre-modern China. In many examples of rare erotic fiction, and in other works as well-known as Dream of the Red Chamber, Keith McMahon identifies a sexual economy defined by the figures of the "miser" and the "shrew"--caricatures of the retentive, self-containing man and the overflowing, male-enervating woman. Among these and other characters, the author explores the issues surrounding the practice of polygamy, the logic of its overvaluation of masculinity, and the nature of sexuality generally in Chinese society. How does the man with many wives manage and justify his sexual authority? Why and how might he escape or limit this presumed authority, sometimes to the point of portraying himself as abject before the shrewish woman? How do women accommodate or coddle the man, or else oppose, undermine, or remold him? And in what sense does the man place himself lower than the spiritually and morally superior woman? The most extensive English-language study of Chinese literature from the eighteenth century, this examination of polygamy will interest not only students of Chinese history, culture, and literature but also all those concerned with histories of gender and sexuality.