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Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands
- Title
- Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed.
- Author
- Majeed, Debra
- Publication
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- xv, 193 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1280
- ISBN
- 9780813060774
- 081306077X
- LCCN
- 2015003596
- OCLC
- 889168743
- Author
- Majeed, Debra, author.
- Title
- Polygyny : what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands / Debra Majeed.
- Publisher
- Gainesville, FL : University Press of Florida, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-183) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1280