TY - BOOK AU - Majeed,Debra TI - Polygyny: what it means when African American Muslim women share their husbands SN - 9780813055268 AV - GN480.35 .M35 2015 U1 - 306.84/23 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Polygyny KW - United States KW - African American women KW - Muslim women KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Polygynie KW - États-Unis KW - Noires américaines KW - Musulmanes KW - Relations entre hommes et femmes KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Popular Culture KW - RELIGION / Islam / General KW - fast KW - Schwarze KW - gnd KW - Islam KW - Nation of Islam KW - Polygamie KW - USA N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=879241 ER -