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Law School Lunchtime Research Seminar - Wednesday 19 February 2025
Guest Speaker: Zainab Batul Naqvi, Manchester Metroploitan University
Title: Book Discussion - 'Polygamy, Policy, and Postcolonialism in English Marriage Law: a Critical Feminist Analysis'
Chair: Dr Laura Lammasniemi, Warwick Law School
Book description: Slaves, mistresses, concubines – the English courts have used these terms to describe polygamous wives in the past, but are they still seen this way today? Using a critical postcolonial feminist lens, this book provides a contextualized exploration of English legal responses to polygamy. Through the legacies of British imperialism, the book shows how attitudes to polygamy are shaped by indifference and hostility towards its participants. This goes beyond the law, as shown by the stories of women shared throughout the book negotiating their identities and relationships in the UK today.
Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how polygamy and polygamous wives are subjected to imperialist and orientalist discourses which dehumanise them for practising a relationship that has existed for millennia.
About the Author: Zainab is a Reader in Critical Feminist Legal Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research broadly examines legal and judicial responses to racially minoritised communities in the UK.
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