‘A second wife is not really a wife’: polygyny, gender relations and economic realities in Tajikistan

Juliette Cleuziou

Central Asian Survey, 2016, vol. 35, issue 1, 76-90

Abstract: While polygyny in Tajikistan existed before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and has been a phenomenon of growing importance since Independence, it is still forbidden by law. To understand this renewal, I do not look at polygyny as a sign of religiousness, but as a form of patriarchal bargain in which women (who often experienced former matrimonial disjuncture) may have a greater power of decision in the spousal relations. I will explore women's points of view, from which polygyny is a strategy to accessing the symbolic and material resources they lack. I then explore the conditions to which becoming a second wife is possible: women's own resources, be they material, symbolic, familial, appear as of crucial importance in this accession to the status of being married anew.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/02634937.2015.1088228

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