Polygamy from Southern Africa to Black Britannia to Black America: Global Critical Race Feminism as Legal Reform for the Twenty-first Century

The objective of this article is to demarginalize polygamy because the practice is a prevalent and regularized social phenomenon worldwide. Wing discusses polygamy from the Global Critical Race Feminism perspective, a methodology that supposes that scholars "world travelling" must view themselves in the cultural, legal and historical contexts of their subject matter, while identifying how they themselves would be seen by the "other" from that country. Wing's study deconstructs polygamy by focusing on its practice in three regions: southern Africa, Black Britannia, and Black America. She explores the options (or lack of options) available to women where polygamy is the social norm.