Traditionally, in Nigeria women play a subservient role in relation to men. While a man can practice polygamy by marrying many wives, women cannot marry more than one husband at a time. Although researchers have documented the effects of polygamy on the spread of HIV/AIDS, littl…
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This dissertation is an analysis of the nature of so-called ‘polygamy’ in Africa. By identifying the specific markers of it evident in selected African novels, and comparing these findings with the socio-historical record, this study attempts to map the attitudes, as expressed b…
This study challenges the notion that the English word, "marriage" adequately describes relationships involving sexuality, reproduction, cohabitation, and household economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. Data are drawn from marriage practices in Nigeria, principally among the Mambila bu…
An important question in the analysis of fertility is does the type of marital union matter? Is women's fertility affected by their marital union type? Does being in a monogamous or polygynous union have any effect on the number of children women will have? What is the nature of…
This research was grounded in the writer's assumption that Islam--with its polygamy and veiling practice--and feminism were not compatible. Being a student of Women's Studies, who believes in feminism, and a Muslim woman, the writer experienced a conflict. In an attempt to resol…
A Dogged Resolve is an analytical micro-history of the theology and marital practices among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1841 to 1890. In the spring of 1841, Joseph Smith, Church founder and leader, took another wife; an act which launched a lo…
This project interrogates the weaponization of heteronormative marriage in processes of state formation and in relation to practices of polygamy. This dissertation explores how gender and race have been used at the service of the white settler-colonial state via the criminalizat…
A study of the polygamous wives of two prophets--Islam's Muhammad and Mormonism's Joseph Smith. An exploration of the use of their agency in deciding to marry a prophet as well as their roles in the greater faith community. Also a study of historical and contemporary discourse s…