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We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: Polygyny: A Relationship, Marriage and Family Alternative

Dixon, Patricia

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ISBN10: 0971900477
ISBN13: 9780971900479
Publisher: Nuvo Development, Inc.
Published: Sep 5 2000
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.19
Height: 1.05 Width: 5.46 Depth: 8.58
Language: English
We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, debunks myths about monogamy and polygyny and challenges us to rethink our approach to relationships 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 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 relationships and families.

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