{"id":46724,"date":"2016-04-25T14:50:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46724"},"modified":"2016-04-25T14:50:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T14:50:52","slug":"marrying-out-for-love-womens-narratives-of-polygyny-and-alternative-marriage-choices-in-contemporary-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46724","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMarrying Out\u201d for Love: Women\u2019s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/614561\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMarrying Out\u201d for Love: Women\u2019s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/282\" target=\"_blank\">African Studies Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/33392\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016<\/a><br \/>\npages 155-174<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/neveukringelbach.org\/hnk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Neveu Kringelbach<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer in African Studies<br \/>\n<em>University College London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/polygynous\" target=\"_blank\">polygynous<\/a> households shape the aspirations of middle-class Muslim Senegalese women to companionate marriage. Increasingly, such aspirations are fulfilled through marriage with European men. In contrast to an enduring popular discourse according to which women live happily with polygyny throughout the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senegambia_Confederation\" target=\"_blank\">Senegambian region<\/a>, this article shows how some middle-class women\u2019s choice to \u201cmarry out\u201d is explicitly linked to family narratives and personal experiences of suffering. In a context in which many of these women face strong familial opposition to marriage with non-Muslim European men, this article suggests that the women\u2019s narratives provide moral legitimacy to their \u201calternative\u201d choices.<\/p>\n<p>Cet article examine comment et de quelles mani\u00e8res les exp\u00e9riences des enfants et des jeunes qui vivent dans des m\u00e9nages polygames, fa\u00e7onnent les aspirations des femmes s\u00e9n\u00e9galaises musulmanes de la classe moyenne au mariage de compagnonnage. De plus en plus, de telles aspirations sont satisfaites par le mariage avec des hommes europ\u00e9ens. Contrairement \u00e0 un discours populaire qui perdure selon lequel les femmes vivent heureuses dans la polygynie dans toute la r\u00e9gion de S\u00e9n\u00e9gambie, cet article montre comment le choix de certaines femmes de la classe moyenne \u00e0 \u00abse marier en dehors\u00bb est explicitement li\u00e9 \u00e0 des r\u00e9cits de famille et des exp\u00e9riences de souffrances personnelles. Cet article sugg\u00e8re que les r\u00e9cits des femmes assurent la l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9 morale \u00e0 leurs choix \u201calternatifs\u201d dans un contexte o\u00f9 beaucoup d\u2019entre elles font face \u00e0 une forte opposition familiale au mariage avec des hommes europ\u00e9ens non-musulmans.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.jhu.edu\/cgi-bin\/single_issue.cgi?url=\/journals\/african_studies_review\/v059\/59.1.kringelbach.html&amp;oc_id=\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMarrying Out\u201d for Love: Women\u2019s Narratives of Polygyny and Alternative Marriage Choices in Contemporary Senegal African Studies Review Volume 59, Number 1, April 2016 pages 155-174 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Neveu Kringelbach, Lecturer in African Studies University College London This article examines the ways in which childhood and youth experiences of living in polygynous households shape the aspirations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,1649,12,8,25],"tags":[17298,23661,23660,9242,4743],"class_list":["post-46724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-african-studies-review","tag-helene-kringelbach","tag-helene-n-kringelbach","tag-helene-neveu-kringelbach","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46725,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46724\/revisions\/46725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}