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Polygamy, policy and postcolonialism in English marriage law : a critical feminist analysis /
Using a critical postcolonial feminist lens, this book provides a contextualised exploration of English legal responses to polygamy.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Law, society, policy series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Series information
- Polygamy, Policy and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: A Critical Feminist Analysis
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- List of Cases
- List of Legislation
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Polygamy, Law and Women's Lives
- Polygamous marriages in English law and policy
- Key themes and arguments
- Context and disruption: the coloniality of responses to polygamy
- Disrupting religion and culture: orientalist hierarchies of marriage
- Disrupting harm and equality in marriage
- Disrupting marriage recognition
- Notes on methodology: voice and storytelling
- Overview of the book
- 2 Consciousness and Disruption in Critical Postcolonial Feminism
- Critical postcolonial theory and feminism: introduction and relevance
- Polygamy and history: a more contextualised approach
- Alternative accounts: orientalism and imperialism
- Disruptive (hi)stories and voices
- Concluding thoughts
- 3 Polygamy in England: Tracing Legal Developments
- Law as indifferent
- Establishing Christian dominance over marriage law
- Standardised marriage and standardised arguments: the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries
- Expanding options and indifference into the present day: civil marriage and non-marriage
- Concluding thoughts
- 4 History and Conflict of Laws in Overseas Polygamy
- Private international law: conflict of laws or cultures?
- Denigrating polygamous marriages and wives: the empire speaks
- Mutating non-Christian marriage: potential polygamy
- Differentiating polygamy: protecting public resources
- Concluding thoughts
- 5 Tensions in Religion and Culture
- The importance of religion and culture
- Collapsing religion and culture
- Complicating the dichotomy and orientalising perceptions
- Concluding thoughts
- 6 Complicating Harm and Gender Equality
- Polygyny in Islam
- Polygamy as harmful and unequal?
- Polygamy and gender equality
- Gender equality and Islam: a case study
- Is agency the answer?
- Concluding thoughts
- 7 Religion, Recognition and Marriage Law
- Attitudes to legal recognition for polygamous marriages
- Why is recognition so important? Practical and social consequences
- Recognition: triumph or trial?
- The dark side of marriage recognition
- Towards a disruptive politics of recognition
- Concluding thoughts
- 8 Final Thoughts and Reflections
- Key conclusions
- Lingering questions and future directions
- Negotiating my closeness
- References
- Index