As should be. Ylva and an associate have a book out on circumcision and
some of the research was on Gambian women. My research (thesis) will be on
Sene-Gambian women and capacity building. Jane's question has interested me
for a long time. The one time I asked my mom how she felt about pops having
another wife, she responded that no woman wants or likes it but what could
they to do. After many years and several kids, the first wife will not
leave simply because the husband took another wife - she will be considered
"nyaak fieda".
Soffie
-----Original Message-----
From: Habib Ghanim [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 12:25 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: question
It looks like someone is doing a university research on Gambian women here
!1 am I right?
habib
>From: Jane Warner
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>Subject: Re: question
>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 08:49:45 -0800
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>This question has elicited a lot of fascinating information and I'm very
>interested by everyone's responses .
>
>I wonder under what conditions Gambian women, in the current or in past
>generations, have felt content with a marriage with co-wives? There was
>mention that rates of polygamy go down as education goes up. This doesn't
>seem surprising to me. Yet, when you look at marriage in US society, it
>is often not very edifying, what with conflict, abuse, neglect and
>abandonment being all too common. Perhaps our divorce rate is just
>polygamy in another guise?
>
>In the minds of most Americans, I think polygamy could be a synonym for
>sexual infidelity. But what interests me about it is how it relates to
>traditions, both Islamic and cultural, and if it holds a key to the proper
>provision of the needs of men, women and children living in a community.
>
>From my limited experience, it has seemed to me that relations
>between Gambian men and women are marked by a degree of formality and
>separation. I have wondered if that structure (if that is what it is)
>has something to teach us in the US, where I think men/woman relations are
>often characterized by suspicion and neediness, even to the point of
>contempt. I also think that these characteristics have a negative impact
>on the work of families--to raise children, and on the possibility of
>community, that rarest of rare things in American life.
>
>Jane
>
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>Jane Zainab Warner-Tholley
>University of Washington
>Seattle, Washington 98195
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