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We Want for Ours Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: African American Women Who Practice Polygyny/Polygamy By Consent

We Want for Ours Sisters What We Want for Ourselves: African American Women Who Practice Polygyny/Polygamy By Consent

Dixon, Patricia

Paperback

General ParentingWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $17.99

ISBN10: 0971900450
ISBN13: 9780971900455
Publisher: Womanist Press
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 356
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

UPDATED, 2026

In We Want for Our Sisters What We Want for Ourselves, Dr. Patricia Dixon (aka Ra Heter) debunks myths about monogamy and polygyny and challenges us to rethink our approach to marriage 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 under a myth of monogamy, this creates a peculiar form of the practice. 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 their 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 marriages and families.

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