Elite Malay Polygamy

<p> Elite Malay women's polygamy narratives are multiple and varied and their sentiments regarding the practice are conflicted as they are often torn between personal and religious convictions. This volume explores the ways in which this increasingly prominent practice impacts Malay gender relations. As Muslims elite Malay women may be forced to accept polygamy but they mostly condemn it as women and wives as it forces them to manage their lives and loves under the threat of polygamy from a husband able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent; a husband that is married but available.</p>