Woman-to-Woman Marriage
Practices and Benefits in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2968406 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Jean Cadigan (0000-0002-6793-2174, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-98 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Comparative Family Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2328 • E-ISSN: 1929-9850 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/jcfs.29.1.89 |
| OpenAlex | W2242845587 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 1 |
This article examines the various forms of woman-to-woman marriage in sub-Saharan Africa and discusses how each form can or could have been used by a woman to advance her social and/or economic status in society. Woman-to- woman marriage may also be beneficial to the persons involved other than the woman who initiates the marriage (the so-called female husband). The motivations of the other participants are also examined. Cross-culturally, women take wives under three circumstances, all of which enhance the status of the female husband: 1) barren women take wives to gain rights over children produced; 2) rich women accumulate wives to gain prestige and wealth in the same way men do through polygyny; and 3) in societies where women possess the right to have a daughter-in-law, a woman without a son may take a wife to give her a non-existent son
Child marriage · Daughter · Political science · Polygyny · Population · Prestige · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Wife · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |