Motherhood today in the Arabic-Muslim world. (An anthropological and psychic-psychoanalytical approach)

Authors

  • Rita El Khayat

Keywords:

motherhood, polygamy, Arabic-Muslim world, psychoanalysis, anthropology

Abstract

This article aims to describe the symbolic and material conception of motherhood in the Arabic-Muslim countries today, and makes an anthropologic and psychoanalytic analysis of the polygamy practiced or allowed by the law in most of these countries.

Published

2010-12-15