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19 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 459 (2011)
Redefining Polygamy among the Palestinian Bedouins in Israel: Colonization, Patriarchy, and Resistance

handle is hein.journals/ajgsp19 and id is 465 raw text is: REDEFINING POLYGAMY AMONG THE PALESTINIAN BEDOUINS IN ISRAEL: COLONIALISM, PATRIARCHY, AND RESISTANCE RAWIA ABU RABIA I. Introduction ...................................................460 II. The Palestinian Bedouin Women in Israel ............ .................462 A. Undergoing Change .. ..................................463 B. Polygamy in the Literature .................... .......464 C. Bedouin Women and Polygamy ...........................466 D. Reasons that Arab-Bedouin Women do not Resist Polygamy ...469 1. Marital Patterns ....................................469 2. Economic Dependency on Men........... ..........469 3. Choices and Prices ...............................470 III. Polygamy and the Law ............................. ......471 A. Polygamy Under International Law......... ............471 B. Polygamy Under the Israeli Law.. ............................472 1. Tension Between Family Law and the Punitive Code.........472 2. Lack of Enforcement ........................ .....472 IV. Alternative Genealogies for Polygamy..............................474 A. Patriarchal Power Versus Colonial Power.. .................474 B. Unmasking Polygamy: Polygamy from a Colonial Perspective ......................................474 1. The Colonial Discourse in Israel ....................474 2. Civil Servants Exoticize the Bedouins ........ ........477 3. The Construction of the Other ............... ..........479 4. Polygamy as a Product of Change ...................480 A Palestinian Bedouin and a citizen of Israel. In 2003 she received a Bachelor of Social Work from Ben Gurion University of the Negev and in 2006 she received her LL.B. from One College in Israel. She earned her LL.M. as a New Israel Fund U.S- Israel Civil Liberties Law Fellow at the American University Washington College of Law and is focusing her research on gender studies, ethnic minorities and human rights. She is a member of the Israeli Bar Association and a practicing lawyer at the association for civil rights in Israel. 459

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