Elite Malay women’s polygamy narratives are multiple and varied, and their sentiments regarding the practice are conflicted, as they are often torn between personal and religious convictions. This volume explores the ways in which this increasingly prominent practice impacts Malay gender relations. As Muslims, elite Malay women may be forced to accept polygamy, but they mostly condemn it as women and wives, as it forces them to manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of polygamy from a husband able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent; a husband that is married but available.

Series: Volume 41, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives

Subject: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Area: Asia-Pacific

LC: HQ981 .Z45 2018

BL: DRT ELD.DS.324121

BISAC: SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social; SOC032000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Gender Studies; SOC048000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Islamic Studies

BIC: JH Sociology & anthropology; JFSJ1 Gender studies: women